>>Several articles have recently appeared which support the notion that they aren't anything but bastions of reliability. I came under fire for expressing precisely those same concerns and suggested that, barring the use of optical media, the use of multi-gigabyte, multi-track tapes provided a clear, present and superior solution. The response I received read something like this: Tapes is no good 'cuz they get loose 'n stuff. Zip disks is better.<<
Rod -
Funny, I thought we had cleared this misunderstanding up. I believe that you came under attack not for expressing concerns about Zip reliability, but for calling almost everyone on this thread "delusional, irrational and naive." That's a direct quotation from your post.
You really can't expect people to be polite to you when you are rude to them.
People who responded to your suggestion that tape is the most reliable storage medium said that tapes do fail, and that no large company ever relies on a single backup of any critical data no matter what media are involved. Your characterization of their responses not only demonstrates that you missed their points completely, but once again insults them.
Anyway, what do the backup methods of big companies have to do with anything? If you want to talk about the relative reliability of backup solutions, you should be comparing the solutions designed for the same markets. Home users don't use $40,000 DLT tape changers, or optical media jukeboxes.
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