Re: backup archive format saved to disk

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On 12/05/06 21:43, Mike McCarty wrote:
Douglas Tutty wrote:
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 07:55:40PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
Douglas Tutty wrote:
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 06:57:38PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
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If in X years you plug the drive into your machine, and smoke
pours out, you are going to have difficulty reading any medium
you may put into it. You are banking on the format of the tape
or whatever not changing in that time. If the format becomes
obsolete, and your drive fails, then you are SOL.

Sadly, this is a perfect argument for why businesses go with
"popular" instead of "best": you can still buy 9-track tape drives
that read IBM and DEC formatted tapes, as well as 3480/3490 tapes
and DEC TK50 tapes. There are a few companies that can even still
read DECtapes.

It's the esoteric stuff (3rd-tier and specialized equipment) that's
impossible to read now.

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA

Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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