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I've looked at tape backup. It seems to have 2 problems. Tape is re-writeable which means that a ransomware attack could overwrite the tape. Tape is wildly exp
by daly 5y ago
I've looked at tape backup. It seems to have 2 problems. Tape is re-writeable which means that a ransomware attack could overwrite the tape.
Tape is wildly expensive for some reason. This seems odd to me. I wrote a tape-based archive system in the 1970s. Most technologies have gotten cheaper. Tape has not.
- wmf 5y agoThere are WORM tapes. Tape no longer has economy of scale so it didn't get cheaper while other technologies did. I'm not aware of any Blu-ray robots so at large scale your choices are limited to disk, tape, or ODA which are all fairly expensive.