archiving as opposed to backing up

Jochen Kunz jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de
Tue Sep 21 10:04:57 CDT 2004


On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 04:19:14 -0400
"Teo Zenios" <teoz at neo.rr.com> wrote:

> Exactly why is DAT such a bad storage format?
Because the tapes get unreadable quite often and quick. The drives fail
nearly as often as the tapes. DAT is write only backup.
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tschüß,
       Jochen

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