Poll; Tape drives

[Christopher Browne]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Madison Kelly <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Quick, informal and terribly unscientific poll...
>
>  1. Do you still uses tape drives?
>  2. If you were looking at a new backup system, would you want to use
>  tape drives?

If considering a new system, NO, I would not want to plan to use tape
drives, except as a terribly downstream item.

The only way I *would* want to use tape would be in a context of an
ultra-expensive robotic changer, which would also imply that I was
backing up terabytes of regularly changing data.

I don't think you're in a position to be competing in that kind of
arena; you'd need to go to an extraordinary amount of effort, and
still not be competitive with the expensive solutions.

I don't see the value in you going down that road...
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