Re: Backup of debian
At 08:45 AM 2/19/02 -0500, Rob Ransbottom wrote:
>On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, John Griffiths wrote:
>
>> So we put together a new system, plugged in a new tape drive, inserted our
>> last backup and got...
>> nothing at all...
>> the drives (we were told by the data recovery guys) gradually degrade with
>> the heads physically dropping and writing lower and lower on the medium
>> no other drive could read the backup.
>> even expensive professional data recovery got us bugger all.
>
>What type of tape drives were you using?
>
It was Sun branded for the Sun hardware
and yes we've learned about testing recovery on other platforms
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