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A comment on The 3-2-1 Backup Rule – Why Your Data Will Always Survive (2019). Parent comment

Re:The 3-2-1 Backup Rule – Why Your Data Will Always Survive... by detaro on Thursday November 25, 2021 @04:35AM (#29339750)
ages ago there also was always the recommendation that you should have two drives, so if one gets out of alignment you'll notice when it starts to create tapes that proper drives can't read anymore. Not sure if that's still a concern with modern ones?
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Re:The 3-2-1 Backup Rule – Why Your Data Will Always Survive... by tlamponi on Thursday November 25, 2021 @06:37AM (#29340455)
> Not sure if that's still a concern with modern ones?

No, that's not really a concern currently, and I actually never heard that in combination with LTO - which is relatively modern.

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Re:The 3-2-1 Backup Rule – Why Your Data Will Always Survive... by detaro on Thursday November 25, 2021 @06:46AM (#29340512)
Good to know. Quite possibly folklore that got transferred over to LTO.
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