Re: Bye-bye tape drives
> how do you do that without running over data transfer allowances, given you're talking bulk data in the multi-TB range
Modern smart backup software only needs to complete one full backup, EVER, and that can be spread out over as long of a period as you want to. After that, it's an "incremental forever" strategy, where only the highly deduplicated, rolling hash, incredibly well compressed differences need to be transferred.
This strategy works great for the vast majority of workloads. "Sneakernet" would only be useful in exceptionally rare circumstances, like a massive DVR with already highly-compressed data that (strangely) also cycles out its full data set on a perhaps weekly basis.
You need to modernize your IT skill-set because you're seriously missing out on immensely useful modern developments. Take a look at Borg and Veeam just for a start.
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