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[@Ye-Hu]

0:41 Ladies and gentlemen the CEO of the company

[@marceldiezasch6192]

please send help

[@Wockes]

My CEO is 82 years old... Yeah

[@uss_04]

I'm subscribed to the right channel -Darkness Intensifies

[@TheAdatto]

He still will fire your ass with no hesitation

[@athen4146]

all i can imagine is the editor sitting there thinking "This guy pays my bills."

[@CatFace8885]

3:31 the upper-left corner of the screen says "Linus Tip Techs"

[@Funnyb0nez]

MrCatFace 8885 lmfao

[@bspringer]

I think "drop files here" is way better for Linus 😂

[@CanoTheVolcano]

Libus top tips

[@kasu8360]

XDDDDDD

[@opayke980]

Tip Tech lmao

[@KC-rd3gw]

Watching this video again after your most recent data loss wondering why you didn't do an offsite backup with your tapes...

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

Or onsite!

[@Vatharian]

They never got to it, I guess.

[@mu_q9240]

They said the data wasn't that important.

[@shrimpypyeah]

@@thewhitefalcon8539 would kinda destroy the propose tho

[@ge2719]

@@shrimpypyeah but most data loss will be from random drive failure or electrical issues. An entire building burning down in order to destroy the tapes is far less common.

[@K-o-R]

7:50 That would explain the tar concept; writing one long file means no slowing down at breaks, so it'd be quicker.

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

I think it was to make the tape drive work *at all*. Normal filesystems don't work on tapes!

[@Dave01Rhodes]

@@thewhitefalcon8539 correct, up to LTO 4, tapes could only store a bitstream. LTO 5 added the partitioning needed to write a file table, and LTFS was born. You still lose about 100GB of capacity that it cordons off for the file table. This happens because data on tape is written in shingled bands down the width of the tape called “wraps”. You can’t write to an earlier wrap without risking overwriting the wrap in front of it, so LTFS sections off a big chunk of tape for the file table. It also will never overwrite old data or parts of the file table for this reason. That’s nice, because you can recover old versions of the files/filesystem on the tape, but it comes at the cost of using up tape space for old files. Since tape should only be used for backup and archiving, and since LTO 5 is 1.25 TB (and each gen roughly doubles from there), the drawbacks of LTFS rarely come up. If the tape fills up with old data, you can always wipe the tape and start over. After all, that tape had better not be your only copy of that data.

[@Tyler22888]

This legit reminds me of my tech class I took in high school. We had recently gotten an old tape drive from my old middle school and we were all messing around with it moving all the tapes around and after about 5 minuets of goofing with it, we fried the entire system and then realized that it was still worth $2,000 bucks on eBay.

[@uss_04]

150 TB of Porn storage, underwear sponsorship, and Linus attempting to lewd us with a product demonstration. I'm subscribed to the right channel.

[@hydrochloricacid2146]

yep

[@NafiulIslam]

Words more true, have never been spoken.

[@tranarchist6335]

Very much yes

[@Amokra]

SMGJohn just 20TB you dear sir are not dedicated enough :P I have that much ecchi anime let alone hentai, seinen, shoujo, and related kodomo.

[@jason22talley]

@@Amokra get a life

[@cobbsta88]

Yep, tape is actually industry standard for archiving and has been for some time now. It's essentially the backup of your backups, anyone who works professionally knows the importance of this.

[@harrymu148]

yeah IIRC even simple vhs's were expected to last 30 years so I can imagine tapes min-maxed to store data can go a lot longer.

[@rossmpostpro]

As an editor in the UK, LTO is the one of best long time archiving solutions around at the moment. I use it every day for backing up and restoring media and projects and it's been very robust over a long period. The migration issues exists but as long as you don't massively up your backup requirements, earlier versions of LTO with smaller capacities do just fine. Another system to check out Linus is ODA, although I'm not sure it's still in production.

[@miscbits6399]

ONE BIG WARNING - LTO6 tapes ARE NOT READABLE/WRITEABLE in LTO7 drives. This breaks the "2 generations" rule and is because older MP tape will destroy the heads on LTO7 and upwards drives in short order and is going to make migration harder for established tape-based setups like mine (I have several thousand tapes and we normally age out over a couple of rotations) WRT "older LTO versions" - beware of drives going out of production. I've had far too many instances of people showing up with long-obsolete tapes asking if they can be restored. The answer is usually yes, but at steep costs via external vendors (7-track open reel 70s stuff is about £250 per reel, QIC80 about £100/tape, so it'd better be justifiable)

[@Xicohtencatl_Xayacate]

Where can I get an LTO-7 tape drive, and tapes?

[@TheRealHarrypm]

ODA Sony Optical Disc Archive has been scaled up to 5.5TB soon to 12TB a cartrage optical is great but god the readers are even more pricey.

[@PrimoAngelo00]

​@@TheRealHarrypmNope, ODA is discontinued now.

[@WolfGangMouse]

*WAVES MAGNET AROUND THREATENINGLY*

[@bigbadspikey]

LMAO! Hold the tapes hostage. Ransom them off with all of Linus' 2080, 2080ti, 1080 and 1080ti's.

[@WolfGangMouse]

PUT THE GRAPHICS CARDS IN THE BAG LINUS!

[@bigbadspikey]

WolfGangMouse No cops or the tapes gets magnetized...Haha!

[@jezwc]

LOL

[@jamesbh101]

Store them in a safe with a high power electricity line running in the wall behind.....

[@mogwix]

There's a story somewhere of an IT guy meticulously archiving data to neatly labeled and organized tape cassettes, only to find out all of the tapes were blank when they tried to find an old file. TEST YOUR BACKUPS REGULARLY

[@zachburke8906]

Kord Martin isn’t that the point of verification? Why would he skip that process?

[@Conundrum191]

I think I remember hearing similar. Had something to do with them locking the tapes in a vault nightly, and the magnetic locks essentially erasing the tapes when doing so.

[@wooferjr169]

Conundrum191 oAHAHHA!!! 😂💀💀

[@phprofYT]

Agreed. That's what good scripts are designed to help with.

[@RockitMan-ey8tx]

That's right! No excuses today as VM environments let you test your backup and recovery procedures safely without affecting production servers and data. All systems should have documented backup and recovery procedures for Operating Systems, data and applications.

[@TimelessTransience]

Haha, hindsight go brrr

[@Coderjo.]

The problem with that 40 year tape life is that while the media may last that long, the drives may not, and as you pointed out, there is only 1-2 generations of backwards compatibility. Which means having to move tape contents each generation or risk not being able to access it in the future because you no longer have a drive that will read it.

[@jamesbrill5319]

Nice to see some LTO/enterprise level stuff! I'm in the film industry and we use these things all the time. You forgot the best part of tape though, you can physically lock the tape to read only so people can't overwrite it later.

[@onceuponaban]

Is this a permanent thing or is this toggle-able like the read-only switch found on floppy disks?

[@jamesbrill5319]

@@onceuponaban it's just a red tab that you can physically slide back and forth to lock or unlock.

[@manonthedollar]

I too work in the film industry, and posted a question about some LTFS commands on a forum the other day. Got no answers, only people saying "lol its 2018 who uses tape." So I'm happy to see there's at least one other person out there who knows what's up!

[@bthillerup1]

james brill not entirely true, you can purchase WORM drives (cool name right) basically Write Once Read Many. I've used that for Government work for compliance

[@namibjDerEchte]

Err, they are as secure as SD card write switches. A trivial firmware mod would do the trick without any reasonably visible effects...

[@ThioJoe]

For super long term archiving you can pay a company like Iron Mountain to come pick up tapes and store them in their "vaults".

[@pizzaboxer]

epicjoe

[@dubklanky9035]

Another dead Chanel

[@joshelliott9578]

I'm a sub.. didn't expect to see you here

[@rustybananaproductio]

so many subs so little views

[@SilverMoon925]

I can't wait for you to show me how you can double my storage for free!

[@Safeboot]

3:35, we've found their secret channel... Linus Tip Techs.

[@das1611]

👀👌🏼💯

[@morganpg]

lol

[@dannymac653]

"and tape might just be the way forward for us" Me from the future 1/29/2022: 🤣 I got one more: Narrator: It wasn't.

[@michaelironsights8347]

What? did they come up with smth better

[@daandriod]

Why is the Mac screen still taped? Linus, You done goofed while putting it back together didn't you

[@tirijalito]

+1

[@GothicDragonX]

I would say it's an old video, but as we know Linus... Wouldn't surprise me if they bricked it again trying to madscience the shit out of it.

[@AuroraSymphony]

According to his watch at 7:12, it was filmed on Monday, Sept. 10th.

[@JGnLAU8OAWF6]

Double sided tape doesn't "dry".

[@louisswanepoel1614]

Probably for another video about their broken Mac, just for the lols

[@KnightSlasher]

*That's a lot of data*

[@ReikazeRambles]

But is it a lot of damage

[@axelpolentes5275]

In a boat lol

[@u1richh]

*How about a little more?* *maniacal laughter*

[@seppdroid]

Use flextape for storage

[@IaconDawnshire]

That's a lot of porn

[@versev0]

Spoiler: they didn't

[@NightMind0]

2018 - I'm wearing Mack Weldon 2019 - I'm wearing LTT underwear - order now!

[@eamine8898]

LINUS TECH TAPES 😂

[@MrtinVarela]

LinusTapeTips

[@siddharthkapoor1056]

LinusSexTapes

[@eamine8898]

@Siddharth Kapoor LinusFapTapes

[@fragarena9910]

Siddharth Kapoor LMAO

[@karlchristianbognot1842]

Linus Tape Drives

[@MostlyPennyCat]

When I did work experience at school, back in 1994 I think, I worked for 2 weeks at IBM North Harbour. They had a subsidised cafe, you could have those fancy chocolate ice creams with your lunch. It was my dream job, computers and ice cream. For 2 days I did the job of that tape robot. The washing machines would request a take number and you had to go find it. Somebody would request data and they had to wait for me to find it from the library and load it in. Now that's LATENCY!! 8@ You also had to file the used tapes back in the correct slot, put redundant tapes into the scratch bin and load blank tapes from the scratch ready rack. The data was processed by ES9000s. They were so fast, they no longer used MFLOPS, but GFLOPS!!! They were liquid cooled monsters the size of shipping containers. I last saw people doing EXACTLY THE SAME JOB in 2010 in New York state somewhere. German Town or Tarrytown or something.

[@MrSober88]

I was very much surprised the company I work for was using Tape for backup's, I wasn't really in the Data Backup space before so just assumed everything was on disk. But someone had the smart idea so now they are going the Cloud route even though we technically speaking were our own cloud storage. Which is pretty helpful when restoring a 50gb folder takes hours now instead of minutes.

[@Deathrape2001]

'Cloud' is 'just somebody else's computer', running drives or whatever =)) No 'magical reliability sauce' with that LOL U can bet there is some 'fine print' in all those 'cloud backup' contracts that if the restore fails they 'are not liable' 2 refund U N E of that $ U kept paying them, as in, who knows if they R ever really storing N E of your $hit @ all LOL

[@JohnyKnox]

I bought a bluray Burner in 2011. Guess how many blurays I have burnt lol

[@jonragnarsson]

I would guess... similar to the upvote count on your comment?

[@JohnyKnox]

@@jonragnarsson way more up votes actually XD

[@LifeboatFoundation]

I do all my backups to dual-layer Blu-rays and it works for me. I used to backup to DVDs a long time ago and use the same drive to access old backups occasionally. I also backup to the cloud, using 7-Zip to make that manageable. I also use a RAID 1 configuration for my main drive(s) and use external hard drives for automatic backups with Allway Sync.

[@JohnyKnox]

@@LifeboatFoundation and here I am no backups and all my hdd's are like 8 years old. This will be my year for new storage. I did try and figure out how to put my bluray Burner in my newest system but honestly there is no way to make a Corsair 570x look good and clean with an ODD in it.

[@LifeboatFoundation]

@@JohnyKnox "bluray Burner in my newest system but honestly there is no way to make a Corsair 570x look good and clean with an ODD in it." It isn't easy to find a case that has good support for 5.25" internal drives, you could go with a 5.25" external drive. My case is the Corsair Obsidian 750D Full-Tower Case - Airflow Edition and I rock two Blu-ray drives in it and it has space for 3. You can see the case at amzn.to/2H5nDnE

[@RockitMan-ey8tx]

3 words Linus: SAS Tape RAID! That's the way to go!

[@ashkarki616]

We need more likes !!!!

[@HistoricaHungarica]

Hello fellow nerd! Or IT guy.

[@danstone_0001]

@@HistoricaHungarica hello

[@csdn4483]

@RockitMan2001 - * cough * D2D2T * cough *

[@nihil2009]

Hells yeah. I had a 4 drive library years ago on fibre channel. Backups went almost as fast as copying from array to array.

[@EposVox]

I've been considering tape storage for a while. The initial drive cost is expensive, but it makes the most sense for long-term archive.

[@tedstranix7703]

Amazon Glacier prolly would make more sense for you

[@zed0k]

Brad Viviviyal There is a reason why tape is still used in enterprise environments. Blu ray discs are not a good solution as you need a SHIT ton of them to make up 1 tape

[@NikolaToshkov]

Ted Stranix Why it would make sense? The year price of storing a 12 TB tape is north of $600. Then comes the price of retrieving the data. Not cheaper by any means. A LTO-8 tape costs like $225, less in bulk.

[@monkey32z]

Tape has always been archival quality. A disc in storage? A bit (pun intended) of oxygen leakage will corrode the surface storage media rendering the data useless...

[@genericsauce]

Brad Viviviyal tapes start making sense when you get into the PB territory

[@r3prox70]

Could've.... should've... but didn't do it anyway. RIP data on ZFS :D

[@highlander723]

0:20 those are actually Yvonne's hands

[@f1ggyc]

Linus's ultimate goal is for his data to be on every storage device ever made Not every type, every drive

[@kalebbruwer]

In about 2 years he might buy 15 more of these tape writers, hire a person whose job is exclusively to manage them, rent a climate controlled storage unit to put the tapes in (with an optic fibre cable between it and the studio obviously) and upgrade to 16k footage which literally only he will be able to watch.

[@looseycanon]

Uh, he might wnat to build a really big warehouse in that case... just for the floppy disks... the big ones :D

[@kalebbruwer]

A warehouse with little robots driving around with server trays filled with tape drives, forklifts for the really high racks, the whole deal. Throw in an amazon drone for no reason as well.

[@karlchristianbognot1842]

a $5500 tape drive without rgb? unsubbed.

[@fragarena9910]

LOL

[@OhSoTiredMan]

But you can add your own rgb and call it a fully customizable tape drive :(

[@DSCKottawa]

@@OhSoTiredMan If you pay that much then it should come factory equipped. Lol jk

[@edstar83]

XXX collection.

[@GamingAmbienceLive]

its enterprise you fucktard

[@Frignothanks]

I love tape, you can do some fun stuff. On one of my first trashcan workstations, I booted my OS (slackware) from a work salvage DLT tape drive into RAM, and wrote changes to tape on shutdown. Sure, it took 30 mins to boot and 30 mins to shut down, and when I wanted to access files outside of the 1GB of RAM that I had available to load data into, it was a serious chore, but I loved the system at the time because 100GB HDDs where hundreds of dollars, and I could add 100GB for somwhere around $50, plus the drive was free. Took forever to make the modifications to the bootloader and kernel to make it work though.

[@ayrendraganas8686]

now that sounds like a fun time xD

[@itdepends604]

could you have added a few GB HDD for booting from?

[@SamuelLing]

Slow State Drive

[@markus8282]

Back in the 90ths I spent about 2000 Bucks for a 2GB DDS drive, writing speed maximum 1 MB/s, so this one sounds like a plain bargain to me :-)

[@SNK1995]

I imagine someone saying the same in future. And i wonder how much capacity and speed will they be having at that time?

[@miscbits6399]

Finian Blackett Tapes are not ridiculously slow - they're significantly _faster_ than _all_ mechanical drives and outrun most SSDs on sustained activity. Where they lose out is on random access and price. A good (small) robot with 80 tape slots will set you back $9-12k, and LTO7 drives to go in it will be $12-15k apiece. LTO8 drives are currently around the $20k apiece mark, more if you want dual port (and you _do_ want dual port) If you want something like a floorstanding 500 slot unit with 5 LTO7 FC drives in it, then don't expect change from $150k-$200k and you can expect to spend $20k on the _hardware_ of a backup system to drive it, simply to keep up with the drives - and don't bother unless you have 10Gb/s + 100Gb/s core infrastructure, else you're going to get choked by network congestion regularly. For the cost of a drive, there's no point in using tape unless you need to backup at least 20-40TB and once you hit those levels you don't want to be feeding drives by hand unless you have _very_ cheap labour and a death wish for your drives, so a robot is the default choice.

[@ThatPianoNoob]

Oh the ninethies. Good times.

[@oschiri66]

@@tf2excession This is actually the fastest AND slowest storage you can get. Fastest in write throughput, slowest in single file retrieval. I haven't seen a better backup/archival solution. Cheapest price per GB and very reliable. Older LTO-generations are very affordable.

[@nottsoserious]

@@ThatPianoNoob you mean the ninetieths?

[@Genomerio]

I am curious, why not buy a small robot loader instead of the single drive? was it for the thunderbolt? A Overland T24 with LTO-8 drive stores 24 tapes, can be driven by excellent software like Archiware, and you dont have to baby the tapes every day. Just load up blanks, give it a schedule and forget about it, for slightly more than you paid.

[@drewwatson7455]

This ow so this! Plus changes can be backed up not just the whole library.

[@kalebbruwer]

I would watch that twice.

[@f36443]

Yea, the standalone units make no sense. SAS autoloaders cost ~10% more and have 24 or more slots.

[@christianrosler3597]

Happy to see LTFS and LTO finally arrived at LTT, unfortunately they choose the "fancy" way (guess thunderbolt was the buzzword). A library and a proper archiving SW would make a more professional approach....

[@FatherPrax]

Exactly. A 2 drive system (I use HPE in my shop) like the MSL 2024 is $2500, and 2 x LTO8 drives for is are another $9k. That gives upwards of 2TB an hour of write performance if you're using both drives, and over 250TB of storage uncompressed in the chassis. 15 hours to back up 4TB of data is insanely slow on LTO8. My quick calculations show that's running at 75MB/s, or 1/4 speed for LTO8, or 0.25TB/Hour. At around triple the cost you can backup 10x faster, have the entire PB backed up in about 3 weeks, and with that speed and cost per TB you can double up your storage for secondary archival storage offsite. At 24x7 backup on their current system, they're looking at 160 days to backup a full 1PB. Realistically? Call it a year with the time taken for verifying and failed backups.

[@bradleybriggs4910]

$5,500 tape deck 25 cents worth of tape to hold computer together The way Linus thinks priceless XD

[@pizzaboxer]

i don't think a tape that can store 12 terabytes of data costs 25 cents to make...

[@pizzaboxer]

oh, thought he was talking about the backup tapes for a second

[@paradauxio]

xtremeguy2256 Correct, a 12TB tape would run you about 230$

[@payne7473]

Wait if a 12 tb tape is $230 why not just backup on hardrives... Espically because it's ALOT cheaper and faster.

[@nehemz432]

@@payne7473 because it wont make ad revenue...

[@SGTBizarro]

2:04 Mini-Linus at bottom center dropping the disc.

[@Gkokkinakis2]

Lol

[@klystron2010]

Linus Minus

[@ugurugutugu]

2 years from the future. You should've done it 😁

[@Mr94529452]

Yup. Anyone workin in a datacenter knows these things in and out. Also all the bugs and annoyances with them. They are incredibly efficient and almost used by every company here in germany.(psst. Also the German Bundeswehr) especially since you're legally bound to backup all data for 10 years.

[@butsukete1806]

Not really serious til you get a robotic loader.

[@paco4756]

Let's hope the drives are more reliable than their helicopters.

[@TV07-FPV]

ei ei immer diese Deutschen

[@slauted]

die Bundeswehr wasss

[@Mr94529452]

Btw. Companys pay stupid high amounts of money for 10 minutes of labor changing tapes everyday at colocation datacenters.

[@opoxious1592]

I repaired tape drives for over more than 11.5 years. Hand me this IBM-LTO-8, i fix this baby. I miss my old company (Sprague Europe) 😢

[@opoxious1592]

@@juschu You are quite right. I removed many tapes that did not want to eject. Sometimes the costumer tried to get the tape back himself, destroying it in the process. In most cases when the tape was stuck in the drive, i could retrieve the tape undamaged. But i repaired IBM, as well HP LTO drives. The HP drives were cheaper to buy, but the life span was much shorter. O yeah, and much more difficult to repair. HP is much more sensitive to dust, and heat. And is prone to produce read/write errors a lot quicker, than it's IBM counter part

[@miscbits6399]

@@juschu LTFS is fine _IF_ you respect its limitations and the limitations of the tape - as a way of making it easier to seek to the location of data on tape when restoring it's great. As a random access filesystem, Nuh uh.

[@miscbits6399]

@@juschu I usually use LTFS to dump an entire filesystem to tape in one pass. The advantage there being greatly reduced seek time if the files ever need restoring. Emphasis on "ever" as I regard tapes as last resort data recovery. This is only done on my own filesystems anyway (I only run 32TB at the moment) and for filesystems which are effectively append-only For everything else, there's Bacula - and the _single_ most common request is "can you restore XYZ directory tree I accidentally deleted 3 months ago?" (usually somwhere between "1-10" or "15-150k" files) - With its database and sha256 hashes of every file saved I know exactly on which tapes, at what location the files are and if the files themselves changed, when it happened (It's a handy IDS secondary function), so restores usually take less than 10 minutes - most of which is loading the tapes and seeking to the right block location - and the backups are held for 3-4 years. (Archival copies go to new tapes and tend only to be read when migrating to new media. Those go back around 20 years)

[@crossproduct9782]

Those damn tape library robots were so janky, half the time you'd find it jammed in the morning >:(

[@Verpal]

Very late comment, but I literally punched the tape robot this morning as it absolutely refuse to cooperate again. Well, for some reason it decided to cooperate again after I punched it, bloody masochist.

[@bigcube1326]

I work for one of the largest offsite data storage companies. I can tell you 98% of our data storage is tape. Out of the last 2%, 90% is SSD.10% is DVD. Yeah DVD... We Offer physical data storage services in secure, climate controlled vaults. We offer next day service as a standard, and offer 24 hour service (at a premium rate). It's actually quite affordable.

[@Olterior]

Literally anyone who works in IT uses tapes in some form

[@hugolopolus4807]

@@Olterior yup - even if thats Amazon Glacier, thats all tape..

[@MylesHamlyn]

More proof that the 80's is alive and well.

[@sudhelm]

8:48 my door made it into Linus' voice

[@brokenacoustic]

His voice does nearly to get to EEVblog ranges sometimes....

[@alexmawdsley]

During one of your videos I was internally screaming to myself, "TAPE STORAGE!" entirely based on an article I read a while ago. It had to do with google loosing some 44,000 accounts worth of emails due to some software failure that caused them to be deleted across several backup servers, but they were all recovered over the course of a few days due to the tape backups. It makes sense. As long as nobody tosses a magnet in their general direction, your data is safely off the internet and can serve as a geo backup. Run the backup automatically every night, swapping out tapes when they fill up and removing them from the location manually, or have them back up over the internet to a different location where you do the same. That way you still have the fast access from the storinator, plus off site backups that are safe from hackers.

And what is a CPU?

[@mr.radioactive9920]

Really nice to see how it works behind the scenes as I work with this particular stuff at work, but from enterprise OS point of view :D... Thanks Linus

[@mathewdempsey16]

That’s pretty neat. So delightfully retro, yet at the same time, very modern. I love it!!

[@phprofYT]

All the US national laboratories use tape storage for data sets and archive of computer code. Just too much for other avenues. I've been on experiments that store a couple terabytes of data per week. Large experiments can range into the terabytes per day. There is a mass storage stub file that is stored on a "regular" server which acts like the directory listing for all the stored files. It contains the soft link to the actual file and data such as the size of the file. When we need to analyze a data set we first request the data file be "cached" to a set of write-through servers. Once the file is cached, then the analysis program is feed to the auger system which distributes the analysis job to the farm machines. If one is clever this can be done all with scripts that are nearly automated. I'm only 1/2 clever.

[@phprofYT]

Yesater Day : I bet. I do research at Jefferson Lab in Virginia. Their tape system is small in comparison and it is still impressive. It is also the only room on site that has more safety interlocks than the accelerator. I guess they don't want a graduate student in there.

[@christianrosler3597]

The software Linus is featuring is based on LTFS , a self describing tape format, which allows browsing on the tape. Usually take archiving is based on automated database driven software, which holds an index of where the file is stored on tape, when recovering data than there is a special client which triggers the procedure (moving, loading, reading) depending of the size of the library this of course takes some time...

[@Stev.3n]

@@phprofYT I go to CNU by Jlab. Are you a professor here? I'd love to see pictures of the tape system. (I'm a Computer Engineering student).

[@phprofYT]

D0T3XE : I'm a professor a bit farther north (~1000 miles). I don't have any pictures of the computer center and currently can't find any on JLab's website. It might be possible for you or a group from CNU to visit with the IT personnel at Jefferson Lab if you have an interest in the application of HPC and mass storage. Computer Engineering, eh? Good stuff. A friend of ours has a daughter in that area. Looks like fun.

[@Stev.3n]

@@phprofYT Right on. I'll have to ask my Physics Professor or my advisor if they know anything about it/or have photos. Both do research at JLab currently.

[@dkimmortal]

The fact that Dennis shook his head so much and the buds stayed put is a good selling point

[@tedstranix7703]

He might just have really sticky external ear canals

[@RadioactiveBlueberry]

If I'd shake my head that hard I would get my neck hurt. It's very probably fastforwarded a little to look more funny.

[@qazwiz]

did i see Dennis pouring acetone in his ears after that commercial? ;-)

[@jawr1215]

I'm sure a lot of people find tape archiving surprising and/or hilarious, but it's standard in studios and creative agencies and has been for years. > Local server sync to offsite server 'mirror', which makes daily/biweekly/weekly/monthly whole-server (or 'changes') backups/archive. Getting something from a backup was a PITA though, had to specify close to root level folders and get the whole lot, and what date you want the backup from which could take around a day to deploy on to your local server. These kinds of redundancies sound expensive, but once a studio or agency gets past 20 people or so, it starts making A LOT of sense.

[@chaos.corner]

Three things to put on a checklist for tape storage. Backup rotation, archive routine (different from backups) and off-site storage.

[@iamdarkyoshi]

Install windows to a tape drive

[@LegendaryWaterBottle]

druaga1 :eyes:

[@tedstranix7703]

Didn't somebody already do this with a USB stick ??

[@Imacuser223]

Oh, man alive... It'd be like running Windows 10 on a Pentium 3 computer with half a gig of RAM (if all that were even possible). In short, a snail would run faster.

[@Krivulda]

It is not possible since you can't boot from it neither access the files directly from explorer... Sorry to bring bad news

[@MrtinVarela]

4k random: 0.00000001 mb/s

[@0003rc]

Legend has it that about a year later now, he's still backing up those same 4TB to the tape! 🤣😂

[@marcusborderlands6177]

*4TB

[@dj-piggy-2196]

Whut

[@redcrafterlppa303]

He would have finished the petabyte project after 156 days. If he had copied nonstop

[@kitsouk1]

Watching Linus listening to the tape drive, gave me flashbacks to my BBS days when my files were archived / rosemail / fidonet on my wildcat board in Ontario. We used a SCSI Seagate tape drive (don't remember the tape size) but the server was a blistering 10 Mhz 286, with a 2 partition 40 meg HD, with dos 3 you could only partition to 30 meg I think, so that's why we had the tape drive.

[@gamerzlog6963]

Tape storage one of my favorite Nostalgic forms of storage.

[@lolskigaming8627]

I need this to store memes before they become entirely illegal in europe

[@dejavecu]

youre dumb, read the act and then speak

[@noteurobeat5678]

Woooosh

[@Maxatal]

chocolate boy r/woosh

[@thursdaythought7201]

Maxatal This isn't a woosh moment- a lot of people believe that is what the EU is actually doing.

[@brucedavidson7422]

@@thursdaythought7201 it's amazing what a little propoganda will do isn't it?

[@uss_04]

02:05 Every 90s kid into tech has a stack of unused optical media to back up and burn those files they never got around to doing...

[@megapro125]

I'm stuck with 3 unused 50 disc stacks lol. 50 CD-RWs, 50 DVD-RWs and 50 Double layer DVD-RW. they probably don't even work anymore.

[@freelifeproductions]

so many files lost. becouse of time spend playing Unreal Tournament. and not backing up important documents ( music movies and games )

[@danstone_0001]

@@megapro125 I need some of those for some super old computers, cu for some unknown reason they can't fully boot my USB, and slow

[@notbydesign3316]

I've been looking for this video for like a month. Trying to find which one I is you sing "it's getting hot in here" and it just showed up in my feed. So happy I watched this again!!!

[@DavidBrown-zp5br]

I really love when tech goes full circle

[@balintcsiszar7867]

"Yo Linus didnt you see my Titan Xp somewhere?" "Yea seems its been casually laying on my desk for days, sorry m8"

[@florismartens9617]

Petabyte Project = PP *Theres no PP left for this move!* *Linus intensifies*

[@LiEnby]

Click the circles

[@minewolf3605]

Missing the circle *CAP LOCKS CRY* UHSDFUFIGSDOFIHSDOIFHOSIDUFHUOSDHFIOUSDHFU9ZEIQHEFC98ZQEYZSEJHBFOIZAQDHCOISDFHCS9D8FHJOIZEHFOIZE

[@wolfinthedepths]

pp (very soft)

[@hamadalmuhairi7877]

@@LiEnby o s u u u u

[@TheEulerID]

My experience with LTO goes back to LTO 1 when the first 100GB drives came out in 2000. We had a developer environment using NetApp NAS storage. Prior to that we had been using DLT, and the alternative to LTO was to use SDLT. I'm glad we went with the former, and it became the Enterprise backup tape standard (outside of the IBM mainframe field) for the rather large telco I worked for. We went through numerous generations of LTO drive until I left a few years ago. It was all made a great deal easier as fibre channel developed, and it would all be added to a SAN (storage area network) with robotic libraries. However, a full enterprise storage system over multiple sites with tens of thousands of servers and mixed SAN disk array and NAS systems with geographic resilience, remote mirroring and so on was a mega-complicated job. However, it was almost never used. With all the disk duplication, snapshot capabilities, remote replication and so on, then some will ask, isn't tape redundant? Well, no. It was the disaster recovery system of last resort. When a huge enterprise depends on the the data, it almost is the company. Data replication also duplicates corruptions and miss-ops. There is a need for a solution of last resort. I lost count of the number of times that I was told tape was dead. Incidentally, about half of our tape usage was on archiving database journals. Distributed systems, with a mess of message passing and data held as objects using mark-up languages generates unbelievable amounts of database journalling traffic. This all costs a lot of money when you buy LTO tapes by the many tens of thousands, and there's a pass limit on these tapes. However, when you have multi-generational copies, then it extends the life of the tapes as they aren't used so intensively. With the full-pass limit on these tapes, it's important to design your backup process well or you can wear these tapes out prematurely. Don't try and use them to write small amounts of data incrementally. They really are meant for batch-type backup, and my preference was always to use snapshot-based backup with archive to tape from the snapshot. nb. LTO uses a serpentine multi-track format. Fortunately it means it isn't necessary to read all the way through a tape to reach a given point as it was back in the good old days of 9 track tapes (which I also worked with back in 1979).

[@MichiDE12]

We got a big Tape drive from IBM at work and boxes full of tapes its one of the coolest things there is i think

[@Marco-ip5cw]

I would have to spend hours rerolling those back after the tapes are finished

[@itadrix]

Back in my CIO days (2-3 yr ago), I implemented an LTO enclosure with 8 drives for LTO to backup all stored data on the 150TB NAS, I used "Symantec backup exec" to make a full backup daily, 1 differential every hour, so, when someone made a mistake on a file, I just rollback the file and done, we made special weekly backups that were stored off-site in case of a dissasster or a complete loss, so, the tape backup is not as dead as we thought

[@FastRedPonyCar]

We support several large companies who use tape backups in addition to tradItional SAN storage. The trick is using software like Veeam to connect your server the tape system is attached to to the data you’re backing up. It works extremely well assuming you know it’s strengths and weaknesses. Our clients take monthly and weekly data snapshots to tape and nightly/hourly incremental snapshots to SAN. 99% of data restore jobs are from within a day or two so those restore jobs are really quick and painless vs having to drive to the clients off site storage locker to grab whatever tape is needed and go through that mess.

[@ther3aper561]

I remember in like 2007 a 1gb flash drive was like 30 something dollars. I dug it out of a box not too long ago, and it barely holds files anymore 😂

[@Jakepf]

That scares me to think about

[@Oweblow]

Today, you can get a 32 GB SD card for £3.

[@kingsofserbiangameplay1623]

Year of 2038. Intel files for bankruptcy. Amd is cpu king. Nvidia is still trying to convince us that shadows are more important than fps. Apple releases iPhone XXll Max Linus drops his first grandchild.

[@GothicDragonX]

Dejavu.... Someone made this comment a few video back...

[@DragonProtector]

lol you forgot amd quits gpu making to move to portal making instead for dimensional travel

[@kingsofserbiangameplay1623]

@@GothicDragonX, really?

[@robsmors]

LOL

[@robsmors]

djkaye youtube Pretty sure 20 years from now, some things will be different lol.

[@theftmg]

We have that kind of LTO drive in our firm (television). We use it for backing up our video files that we dont use on regular basis. We have like 120 tapes full of mxf video files (usualy 1 min. of video is around 2 GBs in size) and I must say if it wasnt that expencive for private use I would definetly use it because LTO tapes are sturdy and reliable, fast and cheap on the market atm + copying is faster than drag-n-drop style from HDD to HDD.

[@NathanMillerVisuals]

Just started using one of these at work. Great devices if you have over 100TB to backup and store for decades. I recommend people use LTO services to backup their family photos and videos.

[@tyepowers5536]

So you're looking at something like two months to backup petabyte project? (My math says 27ish days if you're running 24/7 and I assume that you're going to have a fair amount of down time.) Plus all the time for future backups? Seems like you should've gone with the two tape drive.

[@ewenchan1239]

This is why autoloaders and tape library systems exist, so that the process is entirely automated. The most painful part of that is going to be the initial backup because they didn't plan for how they're going to back up the data when they started Petabyte project.

[@anianii]

Plastic and foil frisbees? My new favorite phrase now 😂

[@niko1u426]

*goes in a music store*: "do you carry music on plastic and foil frisbees?"

[@newsmansuper2925]

its interesting that at some point after doing hardware for long enough, you are more interested in upload download, bottlenecks overclocking, bios, and other hacks than playing games and almost everything else. Liking the sound of the Tape drive is exactly a case in point. You somehow sublime from just knowing the product to an appreciation of the art.

[@RandarTheBarbarian]

I just ordered a second hand LTO 4 drive to make some archival backups to keep offsite, can't wait for it to get here so I can finally start following the 3-2-1 data backup guideline.

[@benjaminmellingen5340]

Smart choice. Tape is really underrated

[@PradhumanRehal]

It is underrated for a certain reason, its not very practical in day to day use.

[@nomsky4719]

Brad Viviviyal you would prefer to put your money on a 5 year old drive? or DVD? 10 years? I never had problems recovering LTO, and I have an old drive from ebay..

[@DajuOnYoutube]

@@PradhumanRehal Well you don't use backups in day to day use.

[@crystalsoulslayer]

pradhuman rehal Tape storage systems aren't intended to be accessed day-to-day, or on super short notice. They're perfect for offsite backups, though, so if there's a natural disaster or a fire or something a company can still retrieve their stuff, even if their in-house backup system gets destroyed. They're also useful for information you have to keep for some reason, but don't need to access. So if you're legally required to maintain records for a certain period of time, but don't actually need to _access_ those records unless you get subpoenaed or whatever, tapes are a super cost-effective way to do it.

[@dguglielmo]

nomsky or just have a proper cloud based backup solution aka AWS

[@manonthedollar]

Re: All the fast-forwarding and rewinding: A lot of these utilities will queue the transfers based on where the files are positioned on tape, so that there is no rewinding, only fast-forwarding. Personally, working in post and using LTFS, I've written my own utility that reads ALEs/XMLs from Avid and Premiere, searches through the LTFS schema files and queues camera raw pulls in this fashion so it doesn't take such a long time.

[@bobbyhinner3225]

This is so cool, makes me wish I had the funds and a need for that much storage

[@Niahc]

7:29 the face of pure joy... he looks prouder than any new father

[@ScrapTechTips]

Get a tape library it will do everything you want I had one with 24 tapes and auto cleaning it worked just like that but a phat storage device

[@tomklar9584]

Brad Viviviyal I work as a backup engineer in a huge enterprise environment.. we use tapes and tape libraries

[@JeffDeWitt]

Brad Viviviyal Tell that to IBM that still builds these drives and tape libraries, and the company makes good money at it or they wouldn't do it. ... and how about storage in the range of 8 to 695 PB? www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/ts4500/details

[@tedstranix7703]

All enterprise storage is done with auto-loader tape machines --- been like that for 20+ years and will continue for a long time

[@Tedd755]

Brad Viviviyal Did you even see the start of the video?

[@nomsky4719]

Brad Viviviyal so where do banks, inssurances and medical archive their data then, please enlighten us, thank you

[@TheAssclown213]

I decided to go with tape drives for archival backup of digital photography. It's it's stable long-term survivability is its greatest asset.

[@TheOscylO]

Partially thanks to this video now I have an access to lto-8 drive and my own cassettes now it's time to do a backup of all of my backup drives. Thanks Linus

[@richardmattocks]

I used exabyte tape backup storage back in the 90’s to backup a set of Novell Netware servers. Full backups weekly (which took all weekend) incremental backups each night which only took a couple of hours. Tape rocks!

[@Gobeman]

This is just a series with no name. The quest for storage backups!

[@ASUSTOR_YT]

Next stop! NAS review!

[@Oreo-le4rt]

I love your KZbin Channel you got me in to building computers

[@johnashton4776]

A track lives on the same tech used in the movie Rogue One the scene to get the planes of the death star. Well done again fantastic video reminds me of a track, simple and straightforward history lesson.

[@dlarge6502]

A track? Do you mean 8 track?

[@hawthornbob5356]

Reminds me of my old tv when I was like 7 watching lion king on those old TV's with built in vcr players

[@JeroenvandenBerg82]

Okay Linus, I'm missing it apparently, but why on earth are you using consumer drives to backup your data? Thunderbolt?! Now how are you going to connect that? Are you putting a Mac mini in your network closet? Why not use a 1U HPE StoreEver 1/8 G2 autoloader (8 slots with 1 LTO 8 streamer means it can store 96TB before you have to change tapes) with 6Gb SAS or 8Gb fiberchannel so it can connect to a server using a standard HBA in Windows or Linux, fits in the nice rack you have, has hardware AES encryption and costs about the same.

[@83hjf]

because he got this one for free. he probably asked HP and IBM for a freebie and they told him to piss off.

[@zforce69]

I know man, I know.

[@bryku]

I love you are worried about using a mac and not a tape player in 2018.

[@zforce69]

You haven't had any enterprise IT experience have you?

[@bryku]

r/whooosh

[@dirtybongwater5751]

When you have more sponsor money than you know what to do with

[@adamhumphrey2153]

Eh, it's all but guaranteed he wrote it off as a business expense.

[@Tb0n3]

Buy $25 a pair underwear...

[@biomorphic]

Michael Scott I was using jukebox of optical disk over 20 years ago, and a tape drive, for backups, later on. They both suck, but the optical disks are faster. However, they were both quite unreliable.

[@CoD6HModthedeisel]

@@biomorphic We use them for work still. Iron Mountain picks them up, and no one from IT wants to sit in the basement copying mag tapes all day 😅

[@uglyduckling81]

Michael Scott kzbin.info/www/bejne/rHyUqpSphtGgrZo

[@poitiers2853]

Actually, track tape storage drives came out in 1951 with UNIVAC when drives relied on vacuum tubes. In 1970 HP (7970E) made reel tape drives that could be used for personal computing, if a person could afford it. Floppies were not the first type of storage, even for personal computing.

[@ifrazshoaib]

8:48 "but" he really sound like a cartoon , i can't remember with which.

[@voidable8763]

Chipmunk land

[@mistaecco]

9:59 "Syrian Google assistant"? Ohhhhh

[@TheStigification]

I used to work a Technicolor and they would rent out suites to whoever needed them and when they were done using their footage on the servers, Technicolor would off load their files to a tape and give it to the client. This is the only way for now.

[@jayhawker03]

Mark it in history the first youtube channel to have so much footage that tape has become the most practical option for keeping it.

[@tomslayr]

Omg a video where linus is showing a freaking expensive piece of equipment and he's not over killing it

[@lelouchyagami703]

2:02 Even then, he always dropped something

[@ZuhairFarooqui]

I've been looking for this comment for forever amidst all the porn archival comments.

[@AndyMitchellUK26]

Loving the floppy disk usage! Good way to keep old tech in use in some way.

[@MiWill1988]

I used to get extra experience helping my high schools IT after class. They used a tape drive and backed up all the schools files.

[@caincha]

1:03 - Tapes holding the iMac display? I'm about to do this myself - might end up posting on the forums: small 1mm thick magnets double-taped on the speakers and the back of the display (might need more than 2mm though) and some tabs on the bottom of the display to old it similar to the glass on older models. Double-sided velcro might work too but I would be careful with those as well as bigger stronger magnets as it might break the display if you have to apply too much strength to pull it out.

[@miniganguly6072]

Is it just me that loves when Linus says Throttle

[@Robb403]

Tape is still considered the best option for long term storage even though there is a lot of experimental stuff with 3-D storage that hasn't reached the production stage. Just remember that a major part of your archive is the storage vault. It would be kind of dumb to back up your data and have your tapes destroyed by fire or natural disaster. So don't forget to put them in a safe, waterproof, fireproof and magnetic pulse resistant vault in a different building, preferably. I would suggest renting space in a bank vault. That way, you know your data is safe and secure.

[@DoctorWhom]

i expect the tapes to be kept under his bed at home.

[@tedstranix7703]

The smartest people will actually have tape backups of tape backups --- store them in different locations across multiple states and provinces

[@timharrop7397]

Hey thanks for another interesting segment! It would be great if you could do a similar segment for us home tech guys wanting to back our computers, games libraries and media libraries, etc. maybe 20-50TB. Showing us what is the most cost effective method to use. being that we all don;t have $6k to drop on a flash new tape drive, maybe more like several hundred. Thanks.

[@LudvigIndestrucable]

Tape backup tends to be bulk backup and long term storage. They're frequently still filed in tars and then the tar compressed (I like bz2).

[@absalomdraconis]

And some can apparently retain data readably for 50 years.

[@docferringer]

You do not want to rely on employees remembering to swap the tape every day as your backup solution. Since you have that 10GB connection to the local datacenters, colocate a small server with a tape library off-site and stock it with a little over a petabyte's worth of tapes. You keep everything backed up and safe with minimal reliance on people.

[@zachburke8906]

Doc Ferringer they don’t need to be changed daily, I would think it would be much longer than that. Excluding the days of catching up that is, and those can be managed by Linus himself and verified by himself.

[@hishnash]

the cost of having someone else host your data is high

[@marc0523]

Couldn't agree more, get a proper tape library from Quantum, like an i6, and do it properly.

[@Apex180]

or a TS4500

[@baylinkdashyt]

Zack - you know that a petabyte is much larger than 12 terabytes, right? :-)