On online storage is cheap - S3 prices (even now that they came down recently) can kill you. Ever look at AWS Glacier storage? It's cheaper on-line storage,
http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/
can be accessed with their free iSCSI appliance, and for a long-term seldom accesed stuff it might do the trick.
calculator
http://liangzan.net/aws-glacier-calculator/
or think about uploading your archive to Crashplan($120 yearly) http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2375988,00.asp or the Crashplan Enterprise (per user) http://www.crashplan.com/enterprise/ and then your client can download their folder to their hardrive whenever/whereever they want...
Or if you structure your system right, Backblaze online is unlimited for $5 a month (transfer times can also kill you)
http://www.backblaze.com/internet-backup.html
Use multiple drives, target and backup multiple computer - there ARE some flexible cheap solutions out there.
John McClary
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From: John McClary <johnnyq_@yahoo.com>
To: "Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: OT:archive family movies
Or think about a LTO 4 library - pick one up cheap for automated backup to muliple tapes, eventually change a drive to LTO6 (the libary is just a high-tech tape holder...) -- a Blu-Ray holds what... 50GB? A LTO4 tape is 1.2TB and maxes out gigabit ethernet transfer speeds (when set up right)
It's the only "lights-out" (unattended) overnight backup. Twenty-year life span like XDCAM disks and big capacity.
John McClary
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From: Terence Curren <mailto:tcurren%40aol.com>
To: mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2013 8:50 AM
Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: OT:archive family movies
It's better than hard drives. Maybe BluRays? I am trying to figure out what to do with all these myself. I have far too much material for the cost of cloud storage.
--- In mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com, George Loch <george@...> wrote:
"So, are we saying that anyone who wants to preserve their home movies should have an LTO tape drive?"
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