both. always both. We had nearlines that were basically archive targets, that stored about 6months to a years worth of versioned data. We also dumped to tape a

both. always both. We had nearlines that were basically archive targets, that stored about 6months to a years worth of versioned data. We also dumped to tape at the same time (one for data interchange with other companies, and one for our actual backup) WE arse saved multiple times from both tape fuckery (mostly the robot being sad) and nearlines going whoopsey (they had reduced redundancy, and a whole bunch more nodes to allow for the size)