27 Nov
2021
27 Nov
'21
1:56 a.m.
On Fri, Nov 26, 2021, 5:32 PM Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 07:23:07PM -0500, Dennis Boone
wrote:
Contrast that with the write only exabyte tapes. I lost some stuff to
those.
There is a reason that exabyte no longer exists. It used to take up a big
swath of central Boulder.
Warner
> In my experience 9 track tapes were not
guaranteed to be readable
after
some
interval. In fact, a standard operations procedure was to copy
important tapes to new media periodically.
There are always ways in which your backups can go wrong and not be
readable, and I'm not arguing that here.
But 9 track tapes have turned out to be pretty spectacularly long-lived.
I've personally read tapes that were stored for 30+ years in
unconditioned spaces.