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On 10.03.2010 18:18, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> The advantage of the tapes is an official support channel, and much greater
> archive life.  The advantage of the removable disks is that you need no
> special software to do a restore, and you could just as easily restore a
> single file or the whole filesystem.

There is another advantage as well, but I'll let you try that one for
yourself.

- -Make two backups. One to a HDD, one to a modern LTO or similar tape.
- -Walk up the stairs to the first floor.
- -Open the window.
- -Drop both backups onto the ground.
- -Try to restore both backups...

See any differences in reliability for disasters here?

;)

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