Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
I hear the claim against tape all the time: "tape is among the worst" and I always call "BOGUS!". Tape is an amazingly durable archive media. I've been in charge of a vault full of tapes - failures are very rare and frequently recoverable. People having problems with tape simply haven't been maintaining their archive correctly (cycling out old tapes, maintaining the tape drives, etc...). I've read from tapes that looked like they had been to hell and back - without fail.
Quite so. Many years ago, when I was a computer tech, the operators had a machine just for testing tape integrity. If the tape didn't meet specs, it was tossed. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org