[Gllug] Tape backup

[Dylan Brewis]

On Wednesday 27 February 2002 11:52, you wrote:
> On Wednesday, 27 Feb 2002, John Edwards wrote:
> >On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 11:18:27AM +0000, Andrew Och wrote:
> >>In people's experience what is the most reliable internal tape drive for
> >>GNU/Linux? (if money isn't and is an object ;-)
> >
> >If money is an object (and usually always is) then a DDS3 or DDS4 DAT
> >drive if a good way to go.
>
> DAT drives are helical scan, and so probably fail the 'reliable' criterion.

Why is that, exactly?

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