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Re:Archive that can be reconstructed with total loss of file... by dom0 on Sunday April 30, 2017 @05:07AM (#14230736)
Tape storage normally uses either an index (linear FS or off-tape, e.g. for object storage) or a more-or-less recoverable stream format ("tar").
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Re:Archive that can be reconstructed with total loss of file... by simcop2387 on Monday May 01, 2017 @02:36AM (#14235968)
In this case it'd be like losing the index of the tape, but still needing to recover data off it.
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