Ever tried DLT tapes? it's expensive but I NEVER had a damaged tape in 5 years. On the
contrary, � 50 DAT tapes (120m) are damaged (after incremental backups, never reusing
a tape) in my archives of �250 tapes...
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On mardi 7 mars 2000, Robin Bateman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi All
>
>Don't want to be too contentious but Tape is NOT a good medium
>for archiving
>
>see note below for reason why
>
>CD is much better
>
>Also has the benefit that all Macs (OK OK Unless v old!) & most peecees have
>CD so v easy for users to get archived data back
>
>ie: no dat drive (etc) no multi copies of retrospect (&
>training etc)
>
>Just a thought. Over to you
>
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