Le 22/10/2019 à 15:47, David Haller a écrit :
better rust-on-nylon (aka tapes) or so is the way to go.
tapes are reliable, but tape reader are not. HP tape reader ruined some of my tapes. and at the moment I had no more other reader! Hard drive stored and not used can have many problems to rotate again. Many HDD died on my high school during holidays *nothing* on data computing world like to live long without periodic refresh the only long term safe system is: copy to a new system (probably larger) every some years, two years is a good pace. Keep the old backup as long as room allows, many die, but not all. computers are binary devices: analog devices last long but fade, computer devices last long, but not all and when they fail, they fail hard jdd -- http://dodin.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org