Driver for Overland tape library

Bob Hemus ol.bob
Fri Jan 5 15:23:09 PST 2007


On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 20:21 +0800, Man-wai CHANG wrote:
> > No, it need not be tapes.  Backups should be:

<snip>

> Tapes require special storage facilities, or they would be oxidized(?).
> 
Golly, how long do you need back-ups?  My brother-in-law made me a
cassette of my sr. recital I played in June of 1960.  The reel to reel
tape was a little brittle and broke occasionally, but it came out OK.
Maybe not good enough for HIPPA or the SEC, BUT?  43 years?
Bob




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