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- From: medici@dorm.rutgers.edu (Mark Medici)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
- Subject: Re: Novell Tape Backup Software
- Message-ID: <Sep.15.01.50.44.1992.7481@dorm.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 05:50:45 GMT
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- ag129@cl.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant) writes:
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- >But is it not true that DAT is thin and rather fragile? Not all backups
- >are for disaster-recovery. If they are used for data migration in a
- >hierarchical storage system (which implies jukebox access) or simply as
- >an explicitly-selected bulk storage medium, they must last for several
- >years. Are they suitable for this too, or just for short-term recovery?
-
- I'm not sure of the physical characteristics, and would want to
- double-check the thiness factoid. However, in actual use, DATs have
- proven to be just as reliable as 8mm. I've run 100's of backups to
- DAT, including using sets of daily tapes over 20-30 times or more, and
- have experienced zero failures. This includes the 1/2 dozen tapes
- that usually sit in the bottom of my breifcase as "double-emergency"
- backups.
-
- We also use DATs for archival storage. Although our use of DAT is
- rather new (less than 2 years), I can again say I've experienced no
- loss of data over time, even with long periods between use. --
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