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Yeah. For most operations, you pay for drive throughput & redundancy, and the actual storage itself is “too cheap to meter”. Except when it isn’t, but those cu

• dylan604 3y ago
  These are the same customers that only make 1 tape of the data. One facility I was at required 3 copies written by 3 different writers. These were in large robot operated units, so it was all automated by our front end. One copy stayed locally, the other 2 went to 2 different offsite locations in different parts of the country with the closest being in another town across state. Each tape had to be removed from the writer and placed into a different drive to do a read back for comparison. In the LTO4 days, we would catch lots of write errors like this. I wonder if the newer formats are any better about these errors? How I miss the old days of tar/mt commands, er, no, who am I kidding!