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Interesting. I wonder if tapes got more complicated or if everything else just got easier. The last time I dealt with tapes was in the 1990s, and it was dead
by jedberg 4y ago
Interesting. I wonder if tapes got more complicated or if everything else just got easier.
The last time I dealt with tapes was in the 1990s, and it was dead simple. We used tape backups at a company with only 150 people. I was the most junior admin so I had to be the tape monkey, but it was easy. Just run backups regularly, change the tape every couple of days and label it, ship a stack to the offsite storage and request the old stack back, and then do a test restore each time a stack came back.
The whole thing took maybe two hours a week.
- glasss 4y agoEverything else was definitely easier by comparison, but the situation was more about the one internal guy responsible for it was also doing all of the normal IT dept functions, so being the tape monkey was at the bottom of the list - for better or worse. When you're juggling 12 plates, a couple are gonna fall.
- yencabulator 4y ago> I wonder if tapes got more complicated or if everything else just got easier. Everything else got easier, bigger, and faster. Two decades back, you needed tape to cost effectively back up hundreds of gigabytes. These days, pretty much unless you have a spare room with an automatic tape library (robots moving tapes), you're too small for tape to make sense. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_drive#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_drive#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_library https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_library