I spoke to my former employer and they are ditching tape. They want off-site replication and if they have an off-site replica they see no need for tape.....
Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Richard > Loken > Sent: 14 September 2015 23:56 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Subject: Re: Is tape dead? > > The death of tape is greatly exagerated. > > My duties today included removing 50 tapes from our Storagetek 500 tape > library and sending them offsite for safe storage. These are LTO-5 cartridges > that can hold up to 30 Tbyte of compressed data and it can be written on the > tape with astonishing speed. > > On the other hand, my employer is bored with 40Gbyte DLT cartriges > because 40Gbyte is little more than a SSSD 5-1/4" floppy disk these days so I > now can have them for free. I have a DLT4000 backing up my toy OpenVMS > box here at the office and another DLT4000 backing up my toy FreeBSD box > at home. > As for cartidges, I am overwelmed with media - including three unopened > cartons of NIB DLT-IV cartridges. > > -- > Richard Loken VE6BSV, Unix System Administrator : "Anybody can be a > father > Athabasca University : but you have to earn > Athabasca, Alberta Canada : the title of 'daddy'" > ** richar...@admin.athabascau.ca ** : - Lynn Johnston
