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Except that as soon as the tapes are written they are obselete and the data is stale, and so they realistically cannot be accepted as a valid copy of the data.
by alt227 2y ago
Except that as soon as the tapes are written they are obselete and the data is stale, and so they realistically cannot be accepted as a valid copy of the data.
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- cubefox 2y agoDon't know about that, but the necessary tape drive (IBM TS1170 according to Wikipedia) seems to be very hard to come by, as I couldn't even find a price via Google. It might be a better option to put the data on ~24 Seagate HDDs with a capacity of 26 TB each.