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[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Our experiments had the same result: archival to cold disks is a
> > terrible strategy
> > > they would not work reliably.  None of the tapes we have retrieved
> > > from offsite have failed.  Our offsite tapes are mostly a combination
> > > of LTO-1 and LTO-3.
> > Ditto, again.
> Are there tape systems that may be used for, say, 30 years, by home users 
> or very small sites or professionals? I mean, not data centers with big 
> purses. What can we use?

I've been using DLT tape at home for a long time.  Drives can be got
pretty cheap on E-Bay and the media is reasonably priced.

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