I can't tell you how much better things have gotten with our clutzy users, and the ability to just go and grab backups... or even NTFS v3's ability to show prior revisions of files... 

Or the other flip side, is when someone has some genius idea on our Oracle, and managed to screw the whole thing up shutting down the organization.... It's really nice to say we'll be back up in 30 min as the drives copy the db snapshots back in as quickly as the interface allows... right away!

Hell even when I was a kid the whole 'datacasette' thing honestly sucked.  sure it held more then a floppy but you'd waste 30-60 min on watching that sucker sloooowly spin.  Life is just too short for slow media.

I know I won't be missing sequential media anytime soon...

As for the privacy thing.....

It kind of reminds me of a bunch of the old BSD tapes that have people's password hashes in there.. I've not run any cracking programs against them, but at the same time they've been preserved by TUHS...  Although it's my understanding they shipped them out that way.  I think one version even has Kirk's history and some other stuff, but thankfully no mbox....

I wonder how historians go with this... it seems that 'people of interest' anything goes, to the point we'll display so&so's comb and diary.... but not show the contents or make it a big deal to get at those contents... 

Unlike say the old usenet archives where were in a public space...

Ok I'm rambling, I'll stop, but tapes died for a reason!