14 Sep
2015
14 Sep
'15
4:13 p.m.
I spoke to my former employer and they are ditching tape. They want off-site
replication and if they have an off-site replica they see no need for
tape.....
Dave
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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Richard
Loken
Sent: 14 September 2015 23:56
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Subject: Re: Is tape dead?
The death of tape is greatly exagerated.
My duties today included removing 50 tapes from our Storagetek 500 tape
library and sending them offsite for safe storage. These are LTO-5
cartridges
that can hold up to 30 Tbyte of compressed data and it
can be written on
the
tape with astonishing speed.
On the other hand, my employer is bored with 40Gbyte DLT cartriges
because 40Gbyte is little more than a SSSD 5-1/4" floppy disk these days
so I
now can have them for free. I have a DLT4000 backing
up my toy OpenVMS
box here at the office and another DLT4000 backing up my toy FreeBSD box
at home.
As for cartidges, I am overwelmed with media - including three unopened
cartons of NIB DLT-IV cartridges.
--
Richard Loken VE6BSV, Unix System Administrator : "Anybody can be a
father
Athabasca University : but you have to earn
Athabasca, Alberta Canada : the title of
'daddy'"
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: - Lynn Johnston