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Gawd
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Suppose you have a project coming up that is dealing with several TB of data. Some portions of the data may need to be retained for up to 75+ years. These are video archives and there are 20 cameras that each have the 40GB hard drives in them. When the drive is full it will be dumped onto a server that has several TB of disk space. These are really estimated quesses about how long it will take for one of the 40GB camera disks to fill up, but for the sake of this post we will say 2 months to fill up the 40GB drives.
So each year all 20 cameras will produce roughly almost 4.8TB of video (estimated).
This would be a Windows environment and the upfront cost isn't a limiting factor however long term costs are.
Given the above info what would be an optimal solution for data archiving.
Some ideas being thrown around:
Using 1TB USB drives to archive data for long term storage.
Having two servers, one onsite and the other offisite and have them replicate.
Using tape for this instance may not work due to the amount of data in question.
Any ideas on this very rough outline? It is important to me that I get as much input from other organizations that deal with large amounts of data too. We have never had this much data to deal with before so I'm reaching out to several options to see what is in use out there.
EDIT: I just spoke with one of the persons in chagne and it seems that only certain videos will be reatined for 75+ years. All other videos will only be retained for 1 yr.
So each year all 20 cameras will produce roughly almost 4.8TB of video (estimated).
This would be a Windows environment and the upfront cost isn't a limiting factor however long term costs are.
Given the above info what would be an optimal solution for data archiving.
Some ideas being thrown around:
Using 1TB USB drives to archive data for long term storage.
Having two servers, one onsite and the other offisite and have them replicate.
Using tape for this instance may not work due to the amount of data in question.
Any ideas on this very rough outline? It is important to me that I get as much input from other organizations that deal with large amounts of data too. We have never had this much data to deal with before so I'm reaching out to several options to see what is in use out there.
EDIT: I just spoke with one of the persons in chagne and it seems that only certain videos will be reatined for 75+ years. All other videos will only be retained for 1 yr.
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