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'" ** richardlo at admin.athabascau.ca ** : - Lynn Johnston