Hello Alvin, Please see my comments inline below. Steve apetrie@aspetrie.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alvin Starr via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> To: "James Knott" <james.knott@rogers.com>; "GTALUG Talk" <talk@gtalug.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2016 4:28 PM Subject: Re: [GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;
On 08/09/2016 04:15 PM, James Knott 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
On 08/09/2016 04:12 PM, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: the computer gods intended. ;-) --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
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.
After the customer's nightly backup process wrote to the tape, was there also a separate verify phase, that rewound and read through the entire tape, and compared its contents with the HDD data? Surely a verify phase would have failed with unreadable (transparent) tapes. And failure of the verify phase, would have alerted the customer to the unreadability problem with the tapes.
Guess how this story ended?
The story ended very badly, no doubt. The cruel "nasty surprise" downside, of our beautiful profession ...
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