We got a $5,500 TAPE DRIVE!

[@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"

[@Shmigss]

MrCatFace 8885 lmfao

[@bspringer]

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

[@CanoTheVolcano]

Libus top tips

[@kasu8360]

XDDDDDD

[@opayke980]

Tip Tech lmao

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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...

[@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

[@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.

[@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.....

[@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.

[@Safeboot]

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

[@das1611]

👀👌🏼💯

[@morganpg]

lol

[@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.

[@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!!! 😂💀💀

[@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.

[@chuckygobyebye]

Backups are easy, restores are very hard (very very hard).

[@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

[@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.

[@NightMind0]

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

[@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!

[@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

[@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.

[@SGTBizarro]

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

[@Gkokkinakis2]

Lol

[@klystron2010]

Linus Minus

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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...

[@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? ;-)

[@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?

[@eamine8898]

LINUS TECH TAPES 😂

[@MrtinVarela]

LinusTapeTips

[@siddharthkapoor1056]

LinusSexTapes

[@eamine8898]

@Siddharth Kapoor LinusFapTapes

[@fragarena9910]

Siddharth Kapoor LMAO

[@karlchristianbognot1842]

Linus Tape Drives

[@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?

[@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.

[@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

[@highlander723]

0:20 those are actually Yvonne's hands

[@sudhelm]

8:48 my door made it into Linus' voice

[@acousticpsychosis]

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

[@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.

[@TimelessTransience]

Haha, hindsight go brrr

[@r3prox70]

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

[@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

[@versev0]

Spoiler: they didn't

[@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.

[@Terminator550]

Amazing that tape is still useful for electronic applications. The VHS might be dead, but it seems that tape has found its new purpose in life.

[@LeonCoretz]

That's always been tape's purpose tho

[@adg1355]

Tape was used for storing computer data long before VHS even existed

[@MylesHamlyn]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@balintcsiszar7867]

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

[@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

[@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?"

[@thejoyoffix4720]

LTO drives have confidence head on them which means they sense and checksum whatever they have just recorded to verify that the data has been recorded on to the tape. No need to do a confidence check as it has been done already with any issues being reported at the end of the run. Doing a confi run will double the time to back everything up which is not needed unless you have to be doubly sure your data is on tape. This is the same in Retrospect and Pre Roll post which I use and I disable confidence check without any problems.

[@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

[@Gobeman]

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

[@ASUSTOR_YT]

Next stop! NAS review!

[@chaos.corner]

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

[@grey1185]

To bring down costs for myself. I used a SAS drive, since I got a bunch of SAS cards cheaply. I just have a tape autoloader library, that is rack mount, connects to my DL380G5 via SCSI (SAS drive still coming in mail, LTO3-LTO8) And software is quite easy I run linux on all my computers normally. So TAR is built in and is a good way to get started. Otherwise I use bacula and configured the tape library as such. Bacula is free and open sourced. With web interface. Total cost including the server is 1000AUD. With a 24 tape TL2000 library

[@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

[@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?

[@bone9jdjkaye]

Amd are losing money (massive losses) and haven’t made a profit in 10-15years. Meanwhile intel makes huge profits and has been for ages... who’s declaring bankruptcy now.

[@robsmors]

LOL

[@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.

[@Wadethewallaby2001]

I remember when I was little my dad would get those tapes out and I didn’t know what he meant. Now I understand.

[@MarkerPliyah]

There is something so cool about physical storage! I hope it comes back!

[@dlarge6502]

It never left

[@Daniele63]

Everything is physical

[@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

[@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.

[@farguc]

Literally anyone who works in IT uses tapes in some form

[@hugolopolus4807]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@gamerzlog6963]

Tape storage one of my favorite Nostalgic forms of storage.

[@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? :-)

[@Kylemsguy]

Just a minor correction: 1.44MB is *after* the formatting overhead. The full capacity of an HD 3.5" floppy unformatted is actually 2MB.

[@dlarge6502]

Unless you are japanese where it would be 2.88

[@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

[@jayzo]

As long as you store the tapes off-site, somewhere fireproof ideally. The old World Trade Center 1's Tape backups were stored in the other tower and that proved to be, well, unwise.

[@tedstranix7703]

No sorry that is false information --- they were all backed up to tape storage in multiple states

[@ifrazshoaib]

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

[@voidable8763]

Chipmunk land

[@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

[@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.

[@mwgary]

Only Linux / unix based os used tar. Windows servers used mostly propriety software like Backup Exec, etc.

[@monday6740]

It's basically just a method to combine files, like what ZIP is doing, but without the compression. There's no need to use it with tapes, it was used a lot, but like Linus says; you just put files on it like you want. I wouldn't recommend TAR as it has no added benefit at all, but WinRAR can read these files anyway.

[@oddball_the_blue]

Hardly, Mac's can use it. Windows using Linux on Windows can use it... oh and anyone who uses 7zip can use them. Tar's are also used extensively if you do any kind of Java based development since tarballs are the underlying structure of a war file .

[@lmaoroflcopter]

Surely the benefit of tar is compression is optional and it turns the entire filesystem into a single contiguous file, resulting in minimal spindle spindown and maximising transfer speeds.

[@bilibiliism]

Console you can do it with zip as well

[@absalomdraconis]

@@lmaoroflcopter : I suspect that at least historical versions allowed additions, and maybe replacements, as simple appends.

[@Marco-ip5cw]

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

[@ghostliberty1603]

To answer the question you ask right before the logo, it is because you need things to be stored offsite from your equipment, for "security" (e.g. NOT onsite for a break in to steal private data for whatever purpose) and safety of the media (E.g. NOT burning up when the building goes up in flames). Tape backup is a great solution though. I do however think that 150TB of storage would be hard for a home user to hit, so tape backup is only for people who are really serious about their data usage.

[@Oreo-le4rt]

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

[@mathewdempsey16]

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

[@ugurugutugu]

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

[@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.

[@Drinkyoghurt]

Last time I was this early Linus still had his balls

[@AssWhole-u6d]

The only Linus that ever had balls (and still does) is Linus Torvalds.

[@sombradude2725]

Ass Whole, oh boy do I have some news for you!

[@movement2contact]

@@AssWhole-u6d does he though..?

[@senecanero3874]

He still has His balls, He Just Cut Off the transportation line of the White gold from the eggs to the prostate

[@AssWhole-u6d]

Yeah, he has a pretty healthy sac, search for this video 'Linus Torvalds: Nvidia' watch the 40 second clip.

[@pauljk-123]

2:02 Even then, he always dropped something

[@ZuhairFarooqui]

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

[@scsi7477]

Imo you should be using a tape drive in a server with something like data protector which will let you schedule backups and do disaster recovery and store once and stuff

[@nomsky4719]

huhu, someone works for HPE :)

[@ДжереміСалазар]

I think you should make an episode discussing the pros & cons of different back-up & archival methods like opticals vs. tapes vs. hdd; etc... I still personally go for opticals due to their longevity CDs, DVDs, BDs can last up to 60 years if kept properly.

[@Deathrape2001]

Opticals R not longer lasting than drives, generally speaking. The dyes degrade & so on. Drives U must research & some types basically last 4ever, though nothing is perfect! Any drive that spins faster than 5400RPM is basically unreliable trash & U can never depend on them, because they get 2 hot, etc. A quick check on the PC I'm using right now some of the drives have over 80,000 hours on them & no problems, including 'SMART' check =)

[@mistaecco]

9:59 "Syrian Google assistant"? Ohhhhh

[@miniganguly6072]

Is it just me that loves when Linus says Throttle

[@benitollan]

Doesn't Petabyte project have any free PCIe slots? you could try using a Thunderbolt 3 AiC (either low profile or with a PCIe extensor) directly in Petabyte project and *drop* the idea of having to use a Mac for this.

[@christopherdurkos2057]

Benito Llan Matos

[@LoganDark4357]

I'm honestly appalled by the great abundance of Mac haters in this comment section. Jesus Christ man, if you hate Macs so much then, why don't you just spend $5,500 on your _own_ fucking tape drive so you can waste it on your Windows PC?

[@Niahc]

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

[@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

[@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

[@MarkReed-smokindeist]

Tapes drives--an old idea that's still good for deep storage. I also still remember loading and saving off of cassette tape for older computers. Not as advanced but it's all still rust on sticky tape.

[@absalomdraconis]

Regretfully, the cassette tape algorithms and hardware were mostly junk. You can normally get something like 32 times the data (which itself means 32 times the load speed) and using minor error correction + interleaving the individual bits of each byte some distance (256 bytes? 1 k? Something) apart (so that multiple bytes shared the burden of any bad spots) would have both produced a much better experience.

[@chuheihkg]

It is very strange using old school method with advanced layer such as Barium Ferro Alloy to do very critical job. Unfortunately, a handy one is more expensive than SAS one. When asking thunderbolt, more more expensive then USB 3 one

[@blackburd]

Holy shit, tape stores 12TB now? Tape drives were popular in the early 90's for home computers. It's amazing to see a technology continue to improve.

[@lennonmclean]

Fun fact: tar stands for Tape ARchive

[@NitePHX]

So now you have to store the tapes off sight in a temperature and humidity controlled facility?

[@resneptacle]

Doesn't have to be

[@BearPiggy]

MAGNETS

[@rwthomas23]

So a bank's safety deposit box? Seriously many SMBs do this, it's relatively cheap, super secure, and you don't need a ton of space anyway

[@samslade1740]

Typically for a similar operation to what Linus is doing, two copies of the tape will be made. In our case, all of our even numbered tapes are the main ones and the odd number tapes are the backup which are then stored off-site. The tapes probably don't have to be stored in a temp/ humidity controlled area unless they are going to be kept there for decades. Usually, after 10-15 years, the data (if still needed) will be updated to the latest generation tapes to ensure data safety. But this is an ideal situation.

[@EssenceofPureFlavor]

*site

[@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?

[@Bubu567]

This is meant for uploading files to it to archive, and then never touching that tape again, unless something very very bad happens and you need to do a recovery. The write speed is faster than my 4 HD nas, and a single tape is the same capacity. That is impressive.

[@xWood4000]

I think Linux is very suitable for this application.

[@resneptacle]

The best would be automated backups or a Linux backend serving Windows, OS X and Linux over the network

[@xWood4000]

@@resneptacle True. As long as we need Windows for content creation, Linux will be the backend in most media production.

[@xWood4000]

@Vinny0 Yeah, MacOS would be far superior in desktop use if it wasn't so unpopular to create hackintoshes and grayish in terms of legal.

[@resneptacle]

@Vinny0 Not really, both have them same base, Unix, but one is BSD and one is Linux. Also, for that purpose, you'd most likely use a server that handles file transfer with a remote interface

[@EposVox]

Operating System isn't really relevant here when you need the specific application and drivers to make it happen, heh

[@AndyMitchellUK26]

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

[@Someone-cr8cj]

Can you boot from it?

[@Cookie__XD]

Basicly you can boot from nearly any storage medium. In this case it wouldn't be fun at all. Booting times would be like 20 Minutes or longer.

[@da_jeezuss8922]

Would you need a sticker on the computer saying "Be kind. Remember to rewind."?

[@brucehines2433]

In the old IBM AS400 days, we used to have to boot from these things. Not fun.

[@krishurlburt7375]

No, you can't boot from this device, unless you're ready to do some serious scripting and modifications. Those og PC's which used tubes and tapes were obviously designed to boot this way, while modern ones off of solid mediums. It's hard to just switch back and forth.

[@lubu4u312]

Yeah you just gotta wait for it to spool.

[@Bekkenes]

Remember to check the backup tapes, or you can risk using disks over again and they have integrity issues meaning that they day you want to restore you can be days, weeks or months without actual working backups.

[@2xKTfc]

Should've watched your own video, no ZFS on LTO. :)

[@cactusmann1268]

0:59 Linus showing us his Hardware.

[@mateuszkrawczyk7730]

Jesus, why nobody has liked that?

[@mfdsuk]

Just make sure you store the tapes somewhere dry. Best to put them in a big fire and flood safe box.

[@firstname1lastname127]

I don't think putting them in a fire is the best idea... 🤣

[@mfdsuk]

@@firstname1lastname127 a fire proof, flood proof safe/box to provide physical and environmental security.

[@firstname1lastname127]

@@mfdsuk I know, that's part of the joke.

[@gmonkman]

Great example of when to hyphenate.

[@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.