On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 12:43:52AM -0400, Jean-Luc Wasmer wrote:
> 
> You're talking about regular DAT tapes, not DDS tapes. Right?
> 

Trust me, it doesn't matter. DAT/DDS will eat your data and you'll never
see it again. Taking no backups is a better policy than using DDS-tapes
because that way you won't have that false sense of security.

My personal preferences (with regards to reliability): DLT, LTO, Exabyte,
9-track, no backups, /dev/null, DDS.

/dev/null is a lot faster than DDS but will eventually give the same results.
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jht