Not to mention finding one, then restoring 30 year old data, and then what?
/niels ml Sent from [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/mail/home) for iOS On Wed, Jul 9, 2025 at 20:38, Jeremy Mates <[jma...@thrig.me](mailto:On Wed, Jul 9, 2025 at 20:38, Jeremy Mates <<a href=)> wrote: > On 2025-07-09 12:49:49 -0400, Geoff Steckel wrote: >> What do people use for long term/archival storage? >> Tape, while traditional, can be very expensive. > > I've found tapes with "30 year backup" labels in abandoned closets; it > would have required digging around in surplus to hopefully find a tape > drive capable of reading said tapes. Rotation to supported media might > be a better plan.