Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Wednesday, 2009-09-16 at 13:34 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
On Wednesday, 2009-09-16 at 12:49 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
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 doubt if you'll find anything. For one thing, the demand for long term storage doesn't really exist amongst home users or one-man shops. Yes, I'm sure lots of people would like to keep their precious digital photos and videos that long, but that desire doesn't itself create a demand. Not yet anyway. The other thing is that the manufacturers who supply the consumer/SMB market have to keep supplying, and therefore intentionally make things break or improve the technology, but omitting backward compatibility. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (14.7°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org