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That’s just not correct. Tapes can be used for either purpose, and with a decent backup software managing them, restoring specific parts of the backup is easy—y
by orev 3y ago
That’s just not correct. Tapes can be used for either purpose, and with a decent backup software managing them, restoring specific parts of the backup is easy—you just need to wait for it to seek the tape.
- jeffbee 3y agoIndeed. The only time I have ever seen anyone restore from tape in case of real need was to recover a tiny fraction (< .02%) of files that software had mistakenly deleted. https://gmail.googleblog.com/2011/02/gmail-back-soon-for-everyone.html https://gmail.googleblog.com/2011/02/gmail-back-soon-for-eve...