On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, John Griffiths wrote: > So we put together a new system, plugged in a new tape drive, inserted our > last backup and got... > nothing at all... > the drives (we were told by the data recovery guys) gradually degrade with > the heads physically dropping and writing lower and lower on the medium > no other drive could read the backup. > even expensive professional data recovery got us bugger all.
What type of tape drives were you using? > And thats why I backup to DVD-RAM now. I hope that's why you check your DVDs on other drives periodically. Otherwise you didn't learn the right lesson. I agree with Karsten that tape is preferable. The major argument favoring cdrw is that for a home user redundant drive hardware is more available. And that is a major argument. rob Live the dream.
