Driver for Overland tape library

[Alma J Wetzker]

Bob Hemus wrote:
> 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

There is a world of difference between and analog audio tape and a
compressed digital tape.  Dropped bits and noise in the audio get
filtered by your brain, computers ain't smart enough to compensate for
that stuff in compressed digital.

IMNSHO, tapes are a miserable way to do backups, and have been for
almost a decade.

    -- Alma