On 08/09/2016 04:15 PM, James Knott via talk wrote:
On 08/09/2016 04:12 PM, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:
I've given up on the use of tape. I use external hard drives for backup.
You should always back up with tar to 9 track tape stands, the way the
computer gods intended.  ;-)
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And keep your audio recordings on 1"  reel to reel instrumentation recorders like we did at Digital Recording.

On 4mm backups.
There was a customer who used a 4mm backup and backed up every night.

The one thing someone forgot to tell them was to replace the tapes.

After about 4 years the disk failed.

The tapes were transparent.

Guess how this story ended?
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