I've been googling this for a while, but only find virtual tape services.
I currently use Backblaze B2 to backup files, but I've got over 140tb and the price is quite costly. The files are RAW video files, so can't really be compressed any further. It's my business, so I do have a budget for this, but it's becoming quite expensive.
Main question
Is there a service that runs tape drives which allows you to backup your data to tapes and physically just stores the tapes for you. An LTO-9 can store 45tb and costs 150usd. I'd only need 3 tapes and storage can't cost more than 10usd a tape per month?
I'd imagine the price of the service would be cheaper than AWS Glacier Deep Archive Storage.
If this doesn't exist, I think there'd definitely be a market for it for the more entrepreneurially minded.
I currently use Synology Cloud Sync for some data and Veeam for the rest.
Other options I'm thinking of:
- Colocating an old server / synology NAS. I normally do Raid-10, is this still the best advice for large 3.5 spinning rust?
- Colocating a tape server. I've never touched tape before and don’t own a machine, but was thinking I could buy an LTO-7/8 drive. The price of the hardware seems like it might actually not be cheaper.