In the simplest version of my post, you're paying for media, the time for somebody to pop it in the machine, the hire of that machine while you copy data to it over the network, and the postage of a tiny little LTO back to you for archival.
On higher density tape, you could be looking at a one-off $100 total for writing 10TB of data to tape and mailing it back. There's a lot of room between that price and the nearest incumbent to make a strong profit there.
rsync.net seems very bespoke, so they may be able to give you a tape, but you're looking at $250 per "incident" plus hardware. They waive that fee if you store more than 100TB ($2k/month).
Yeah, they're much more available but most of us aren't after cloud storage, we want a lasting backup in case the NAS dies, or the house burns down. Restore speed doesn't matter.
Ah, true. I didn't consider the "one time dump of a boatload of data" as a use case. My backups tend to run relatively often, and at that point, $10 for each tape load would easily make the tape service more expensive!
In the simplest version of my post, you're paying for media, the time for somebody to pop it in the machine, the hire of that machine while you copy data to it over the network, and the postage of a tiny little LTO back to you for archival.
On higher density tape, you could be looking at a one-off $100 total for writing 10TB of data to tape and mailing it back. There's a lot of room between that price and the nearest incumbent to make a strong profit there.
rsync.net seems very bespoke, so they may be able to give you a tape, but you're looking at $250 per "incident" plus hardware. They waive that fee if you store more than 100TB ($2k/month).
Yeah, they're much more available but most of us aren't after cloud storage, we want a lasting backup in case the NAS dies, or the house burns down. Restore speed doesn't matter.