"Jan Panteltje"  wrote in message
news:pkc9pr$jrc$1@dont-email.me...
> On a sunny day (Tue, 7 Aug 2018 13:41:10 +0100) it happened "NY"
>  wrote in
> :
>
>>Are tapes still used much for computer backups, or has everyone gone over
>>to
>>remote off-site backup onto hard disc?
>
> Not so long ago I think it was Sony that came out with a yet bigger tape
> just for that
>
> IBM and Sony cram up to 330 terabytes into tiny tape cartridge:
>
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/08/ibm-and-sony-cram-up-to-
330tb-into-tiny-tape-cartridge/\

330 *tera*bytes? Blimey. I bet it takes ages to locate the file that you
want to retrieve in the event of file corruption or accidental deletion.
That's where hard discs are good for backups because they are random access.
I use Microsoft SyncToy for doing incremental backups, which has the
advantage that the backup is stored as an exact file-and-folder copy of the
original, so you don't need proprietary software to decode a huge backup
file to extract the file you want. Mind you, it doesn't store multiple
versions of the same file...

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