17 Mar
2005
17 Mar
'05
11:52 a.m.
However, I find that media is much more sturdy than
these discussions
would indicate. We tend to gripe very loudly (and rightly so) when
poor quality backup media takes our data with it. But what about all
those times we go back to our old backups and thankfully find what we
need?
In this vein, I recently dragged out an old Sun QIC drive to read a
friend's tapes.
The tapes must have been written something like 15 to 20 years ago,
probably taken moderately but not especially good care of since then,
and I can't recall any problems. (It was only several tens of
megabytes, so it was no problem to shovel it around today once I had
the bits on disk.)
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