On: Backup Your Data to Paper

[srtjstjsj]

Wherever you store paper is also a volatile and ever changing place. S3 is certainly more durable over the past 14 years than my homes/offices.

"Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)"

https://www.webcitation.org/6P8EBZqQX

[jlokier → srtjstjsj]

I tried tape backup.

Never was able to read the tapes later.

[tW4r → jlokier]

Take tris with a grain of salt, but I’ve heard an urban legend about a Fortune 500 company:

Company uses magnetic tape backups that are stored in a bank vault

Something occurs down the line requesting the backups to be restored

Unable to restore backups from any of the tapes

Investigation performed, result:

IT person was taking the backups to the bank via subway, magnetized doors of the subway were constantly wiping the tapes

Conclusion: always test your backups regularly

[nix23 → tW4r]

>IT person was taking the backups to the bank via subway, magnetized doors of the subway were constantly wiping the tapes

That's probably bullshit you need a extreme strong magnet todo that.

[nix23 → jlokier]

LTO Tapes are the best.

Used them at a Insurance company, they are extremely reliable.

[jlokier → nix23]

I haven't used LTO. Looking at the description on Wikipedia, LTO looks excellently designed.

I used DAT/DDS (didn't have a choice - was given all my university projects on a DDS tape, couldn't read the data when I got access to a drive sadly), and I won't be using that again!

[nix23 → jlokier]

No really, LTO are the only tapes you should use, the drives are backward compatible and quite cheap if they are from an older generation. Cerns CASTOR system mainly relies on LTO-Drives/Tapes