8 May
2007
8 May
'07
9:23 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
All of the 8mm gear that I saw was SCSI.
That's good to hear :)
Even in 1991, it was getting to be obvious that the
era of tape
backup was doomed, with hard disk storage capacities growing like
Topsy and tape lagging more an more--although I still use DLT
occasionally.
I tend to put stuff on DLT still - unless it's something really large (like a
raw archive of some vintage system's hard disk), in which case it gets
mirrored to a second hard drive.
I always figure there's a lot less to go wrong in a DLT cartridge than there
is with a hard disk - but I'm not sure how it all works out in the end given
that the physical data surfaces in a hard disk are probably more robust. Maybe
the clever thing to do would be to backup twice to two *identical* hard
drives, in the hope that if either the logic board or the "mechanical" side
went wrong there'd be enough good bits to make up a working unit from which to
restore.
(Note that I'm talking "home backup" here rather than corporate... I think
generally what happens though is that 99.9% of the world's home users don't
actually bother backing anything up at all)