Sometimes I think management just wants to offload the important work to
some other entity so they can move the blame once things go south (and they
eventually will). So much in the news about companies getting hacked and all
the information stolen makes me wonder why your competition just cant have
you hacked and your files tampered with. By the time you figure out
something is fishy your off site mirror data might be screwed as well. The
cloud is a hackers dream, why spend the time to hack individual companies
when you can hack a data center and get 1000's of them at once.
I like tape for archives and collect all kinds of formats for fun. Most of
what I use personally is LTO 1/2 since its so cheap and 100/200GB per tape
is still useful. For old machines you just mess around with DLT/DDS/AIT work
just fine. I have QIC tapes from the early 90's that are still readable if
needed.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave G4UGM
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2015 7:13 PM
To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'
Subject: RE: Is tape dead?
I spoke to my former employer and they are ditching tape. They want off-site
replication and if they have an off-site replica they see no need for
tape.....
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard
Loken
Sent: 14 September 2015 23:56
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Is tape dead?
The death of tape is greatly exagerated.
My duties today included removing 50 tapes from our Storagetek 500 tape
library and sending them offsite for safe storage. These are LTO-5
cartridges
that can hold up to 30 Tbyte of compressed data and it can be written on
the
tape with astonishing speed.
On the other hand, my employer is bored with 40Gbyte DLT cartriges
because 40Gbyte is little more than a SSSD 5-1/4" floppy disk these days
so I
now can have them for free. I have a DLT4000 backing up my toy OpenVMS
box here at the office and another DLT4000 backing up my toy FreeBSD box
at home.
As for cartidges, I am overwelmed with media - including three unopened
cartons of NIB DLT-IV cartridges.
--
Richard Loken VE6BSV, Unix System Administrator : "Anybody can be a
father
Athabasca University : but you have to earn
Athabasca, Alberta Canada : the title of
'daddy'"
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