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Re:The long road to recover Frogger 2 source from tape drives by bombcar on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @07:51PM (#36065449)
The only reasonable solution is to keep migrating and checking the data on various media; but this is expensive and often deemed not worth it.
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Re:The long road to recover Frogger 2 source from tape drives by justsomehnguy on Thursday May 25, 2023 @10:32AM (#36071219)
Depends on the size of the data.

If your dataset is below 1-2Tb it would cost you less than $200 in a decade to move to a newer HDD every 5 years.

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Re:The long road to recover Frogger 2 source from tape drives by mrguyorama on Thursday May 25, 2023 @01:25PM (#36073516)
That used to be my method but I decided to "upgrade" to paying backblaze to manage that method for me and just in the nick of time too as my SSD crib-deathed soon after.
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