[Info-vax] VAX VMS going forward

[Scott Dorsey]

Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>On 2020-07-27, Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
>> Bill Gunshannon  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>As opposed to DAT's which I have seen suffer data loss in as little
>>>as a month.
>>
>> I have actually had pretty good luck with DDS tapes.  It's the Exabytes that
>> are most horrible.  Many of them suffered data loss the moment they were
>> written.
>
>A WORN drive ? (Write Once, Read Never) :-)
>
>Seriously however, when I was considering backup options back when
>Exabytes were a thing, I never considered them because of reported
>issues even back then.

I remember seeing someone on Usenet in the early nineties recommending to
never use /VERIFY on Exabytes, because then it would almost always fail.

With backups like these, who needs secure media shredders?
--scott
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