idea question for fellow sysadmins

[James Knott]

Madison Kelly wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>   While trying to decide what hardware support to build into my (new) 
> backup program I got to thinking...
>
>   Would there be any demand for someone to build a collection of old 
> media hardware for the purpose of recovering old data to a modern 
> format? Before I go to the effort of building a collection of 
> old/obscure media drives though, I wanted to pick TLUGs brain, 
> specially of you sysadmin types.
>
>   How often, if ever, have you had to find some way of recovering data 
> off of old tapes, MO disks and other media? How many of you have this 
> media laying around and would like to have it converted to something 
> readable (ie: DVD disk, HDD)? If you wanted the data off, would you 
> send it off to a media conversion house?
>
>   I realize there are questions like filesystem types, file formats 
> and such to consider before I could get off the ground, but I wanted 
> to see if there might be any demand before starting this. Thanks for 
> any feedback!

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