8 May
2007
8 May
'07
5:02 p.m.
Al Kossow wrote:
I'm not sure that it matters though, not while the hardware to read whatever
media is being used still survives in healthy numbers. With any type of media
there will come a point where for all intents and purposes it's obsolete, but
migration should happen before that point's reached.
DLT is pretty quick in my experience for the sorts of data sizes typically
found on home machines. Different matter entirely (generally) in the corporate
world, of course.
I always
figure there's a lot less to go wrong in a DLT cartridge
than there
is with a hard disk
The flaw in this argument is the time it takes to make another copy,
which needs to be done at some point to migrate to newer media. You will only know the DLT has failed when you try to
read it again.
Surely that's true of any backup media? (Well, the exception being backup
media where you *know* it's broken just by looking at it!).