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Re: tape drives

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mick crane wrote: 
> Do people use tape drives for backup ?
> I saved data to tape before but I think they were DAT and not very big but
> see that these LTO-2 tapes are 600Gb and not expensive.
> Do people use those ?

Yes.

However, my company has switched over to using disk storage for
backups. The time-cost for retrieving a file or a directory is
much lower, and we do that small recovery much more often than
we need to bring back an entire machine. 

Also note that LTO-2 is 200GB per tape, not 600. Tape
manufacturers have an awful habit of pretending that all data is
compressible, and citing a compressed storage amount instead of
the raw storage amount.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open should be helpful
to you.

-dsr-

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tape drives mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2020-08-12 12:50 +0200
  Re: tape drives Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-08-12 13:00 +0200
    Re: tape drives mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2020-08-12 14:20 +0200
  Re: tape drives The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-08-12 13:00 +0200
    Re: tape drives Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-08-12 13:10 +0200
  Re: tape drives Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2020-08-12 23:50 +0200

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