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[ale] DAT Tape Data Recovery

Marvin Dickens wrote:
> Why would you use 4mm to backup critical data? The technology is not
> reliable.
> 

   You use what you have sometimes (the prevalent technology at the time, which was 5 yrs ago).  If you machine ships with 4mm DAT, you typically use 4mm DAT.  I still have some stuff archived on 9-track tape from a HP mini-computer.

-- 
Lost in Tokyo,
   Keith


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