Tape Storage Might Be Computing’s Climate Savior

Re:Tape Storage Might Be Computing’s Climate Savior by nohankyou on Thursday August 17, 2023 @12:53AM (#37157404)

Unpredictable compression ratios weren't as much of a concern for me as physical failure. The bad taste was from having to unspool an entire backup tape onto the floor with a hand drill to get the tape reader operable again. All of this just so I can load another tape from the previous week to attempt a moonshot at restoring services before everyone wakes up.

You can test your restores all you want, but in an emergency, there is a chance it's going to jam up like a printer and destroy your backup at the same time.

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Re:Tape Storage Might Be Computing’s Climate Savior by myrryr on Thursday August 17, 2023 @01:19AM (#37157548)

> Unpredictable compression ratios weren't as much of a concern for me as physical failure.

totally. I just think that their quirk in how they advertise has pushed people away from using them at all is interesting.

As one guy said, "I can compress stuff on my disks as well, it doesn't mean that they have twice as much capacity, and shouldn't be advertised as such"

I thought people would have just kinda shrugged their shoulders and just went "I guess it is just a little weird" but it really has pushed people away.

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Re:Tape Storage Might Be Computing’s Climate Savior by leptons on Thursday August 17, 2023 @01:04AM (#37157469)

If you think one tape backup for important stuff is enough, then you did it wrong. Backups for your backups for your backups, is the way.

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Re:Tape Storage Might Be Computing’s Climate Savior by ggm on Thursday August 17, 2023 @01:46AM (#37157720)

Wound a 9600 bpi on backwards (twisted tape) by mistake and was made to fix it. That was an interesting day.

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