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"that restores (and the testing of said restores) is what is essential" Not sure if it's true or urban legend but I remember reading a story about 15 years ago
by larrys 15y ago
"that restores (and the testing of said restores) is what is essential"
Not sure if it's true or urban legend but I remember reading a story about 15 years ago about tape backups being left on the seat of a car with heated seats. When they finally needed them they had been erased by the electric current in the seats. (That's the rough story that I remember at least).
- ars 15y agoIt's probably not true. The magnetic field generated by heated seats is very very low. The coercivity of magnetic tape is much higher than that, plus the car field is constant, which doesn't work very well to erase thing. The heat maybe, that could do it, magnetic media doesn't like heat. A car warmer would not be enough, but a hot car in the summer might be.
- larrys 15y agoHaving bought an tape eraser at radio shack some time ago I would tend to agree with you. To me though the story has value and sticks out in my mind simply to reinforce unknowns that should cause you to always verify backups. Has much more impact than simply reading "important to test backups". That said the tapes I believe were large reels and the seats were an old Saab or something like that. So who knows the force field that thing gave off.