[rescue] advice on rescuing an e10k

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Thu Oct 26 14:05:36 CDT 2006


Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 11:29:02AM -0500, Dr. Robert Pasken wrote:
>> the raw data is still being written to 8mm Exabyte tapes,
> 
> Woo, write once, read never! 8-)

Have you had that bad experience with them?

I use them for backup tapes on machines where the data is completely 
useless unless it's newer than about a week old.  The Exabyte tapes 
don't seem to have any trouble in that scenario.

Peace...  Sridhar



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