Re: [ARSCLIST] TY vs Mitsui

["Prentice, Will" <Will.Prentice@xxxxx>]

The design of the MSS isn't finalised apparently, but multiple,
geographically separate, mirrored servers will be in it, plus possibly
some tape.  I didn't mean to imply that we'd physically throw out the
recordable optical media - we try to throw nothing out - only that we'd
no longer be reliant on it as the sole carrier.

Regards

Will Prentice

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Subject: [ARSCLIST] TY vs Mitsui

Bill Prentice, you said,

>>The [British] Library as a whole is working on a mass storage setup, 
>>and as soon as we have access to that, we'll ingest like crazy and
ditch 
>>(or at least stop relying on) recordable optical media ASAP. 

In this scenario, what will you rely on for backup?  Do I recall reading
that you will have mirrored servers at separate geographic locations?
Not being able to afford that, we are moving toward enterprise server
based storage for .wav files with backups on the discs in question
located elsewhere.  In addition, there will be backups on SDLT.  That
provides two magnetic storage options (HDDs and SDLT) and one optical.

>>I reckon a good quality, appropriately burned silver backup is safer
in
>>the *medium term* than a gold backup on batch-identical media.  

Well put.

Thank you all for the thorough treatment of this subject!

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