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Re:The long road to recover Frogger 2 source from tape drives by mrguyorama on Thursday May 25, 2023 @01:13PM (#36073358)
These things make more sense because LTO is used for backup, not archival. Companies don't want to be able to read the tape data in 50 years, they want to be able to read it tomorrow, after the entire business campus burns down.
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