Hello Alvin,
Please see my comments inline below.
Steve
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From: "Alvin Starr via talk" <[email protected]>
To: "James Knott" <[email protected]>; "GTALUG Talk"
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Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2016 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: [GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP
PC;
On 08/09/2016 04:15 PM, James Knott via talk wrote:
On 08/09/2016 04:12 PM, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:
I've given up on the use of tape. I use external hard drives for
backup.
You should always back up with tar to 9 track tape stands, the way
the
computer gods intended. ;-)
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And keep your audio recordings on 1" reel to reel instrumentation
recorders like we did at Digital Recording.
On 4mm backups.
There was a customer who used a 4mm backup and backed up every night.
The one thing someone forgot to tell them was to replace the tapes.
After about 4 years the disk failed.
The tapes were transparent.
After the customer's nightly backup process wrote to the tape, was there
also a separate verify phase, that rewound and read through the entire
tape, and compared its contents with the HDD data?
Surely a verify phase would have failed with unreadable (transparent)
tapes. And failure of the verify phase, would have alerted the customer
to the unreadability problem with the tapes.
Guess how this story ended?
The story ended very badly, no doubt. The cruel "nasty surprise"
downside, of our beautiful profession ...
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