[CLUE-Tech] Tape Drives - why?

[Adam Bultman]

I use tape because tape lasts along time, I don't have to worry as much 
about drive failure/corruption, accidental dropping, or  any of the 
other things that comes from when you rotate media offsite every two 
weeks. 


Adam

David L. Willson wrote:

>OK, I'm no newbie, and I find myself asking the same damn question every
>time I get into the Backup & Disaster Recovery design process.  Why does any
>business with less than a TB of data to backup use tapes?  Why, why, why,
>when almost any fixed disk media is much cheaper and almost as easy to take
>offsite?
>
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