Ok I'm
rambling, I'll stop, but tapes died for a reason!
Well, for a lot of customers they are still very real. More for archiving
than for backups in some cases. I personally trust *good* tape technology
more than el-cheapo bit SATA drives (SATAn drives as one of my colleagues
likes to call them when they are causing grief).
Disks are much higher volume and are forced to be reliable "enough".
If you aren't backing up with a crc then you are doing it wrong.
If you want archive, write it to dvd or bluray and pull them out and
rewrite every 5 years.
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Larry McVoy lm at
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