Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Why Tape

[Kevin Spicer]

On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 00:27, Greg Freemyer wrote:

> 
> Optical is also good, but not very dense currently and they don't have a
> 20 year real world history to prove themselves.  
> 
IIRC a recent study concluded that many types of CDR start to degrade as
little as two years after manufacture.  [That may not be completely
accurate as I can't remember where I saw the article to reference it]

Tape is still an important consideration for many people.  In any event
the majority of the design considerations for archiving to tape (ie.
sequential reading / writing) have other advantages as touched on in
some of my other posts (such as the ability to restore undamaged
portions of damaged/ truncated archives, and reading/ writing an archive
to a stream 




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