magnetic tape backups are still needed for compliance purposes although i wouldn't recommend depending your job _solely_ on it.
reminds me of the days that we almost have to endure more than a week of downtime for the tape restoration to finish (while crossing our fingers against the possibility of a failure!). luckily for us, we still have better options back then. ever thought why some companies require a full-time backup operator (even if they're using a tape loader)? :D On 5/2/07, ian sison (mailing list) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
.... What's the common theme amongst this is that the era of tape based backups are over. Let's face it. Leveraging your backups on tape may be cheap, but when it's time to restore from them, in your most critical hour, experience tells me they will fail you or at the very least, make it damn hard for you to restore! In this hot, and humid climate, unlike disk based backups you never know if the data you wrote to tape is in fact readable by the time you need it. It's a good thing the cost of hard disks have gone down nowadays, and it's so easy to justify a raid 1 array of 750GB with several external USB hard disks for backup purposes. - ian
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