| Walt Mankowski via plug on 1 Jun 2023 06:14:14 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Blog: John Goerzen: Recommendations for Tools for Backing Up and Archiving to Removable Media |
On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 09:58:47PM -0400, Steve Litt via plug wrote: > The big reason I never use tapes is that five, ten or twenty years from > now, I might not be able to procure a compatible tape drive when the > current one breaks, and boom, all my tapes are museum pieces. > > I once wrote about this: > > http://troubleshooters.com/lpm/200208/200208.htm#_backup_principles Since it's 20 years since you wrote that, you can test that theory! Can you still procure tape drives that are compatible with those from 2002? Walt ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug