Hi CHARLES.

10-Dec-03 03:13:00, CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to ROY J. TELLASON


 CA> I think the two keywords for tar to tape are SLOW and
 CA> UNRELIABLE.

if it's with second-hand hardware that's probably true.

if you have a lot of data. (like, say, a genome) tape backup is cheap, and
rugged... a tape can withstand dust better than a removable disk, and
stratic electicty better than a removable drive and takes up less space

 -=> Bye <=-

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