[Info-vax] DAT drive misreads write protect tab

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2012-10-10 18:08:55 +0000, Rich Jordan said:

> 
>      Re: tape is dead?  I know that a lot of people think cloud backup
> is the shizzle and online porta-disks are the best alternative, but at
> the (low) end, a tested/reliable DLT or better tape drive (on a system
> that supports it) is so far above the reliability level of the
> inexpensive (name brand) USB drives we've dealt with that it isn't
> funny.  If you can afford real NAS boxes with decent drives, thats a
> different story.

The low-end is where this cloud stuff really shines, if you have a 
sufficiently capacious network link.

Once you strip off the marketing, a cloud backup can be the same thing 
as shoving a saveset onto a remote VMS host.

For this case, transferring the data over to an x86 box running simh or 
one of the Alpha emulators is also quite viable.



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