Re: Tape Backup encryption

[John McKee <jmmckee3@xxxxxxxxx>]

There was a segment on "Marketplace" Froday about tape.  Seems there are
now only TWO companies that manufacture tape.  And there is a battle
between the companies.  The segmet opens with how the Internet is backed
up.  As expensive as taps is now, if the battle between the two companies
ends with a victor, what will that do to tape prices?

If interest, you can hear the episode, or even download it from here:



https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace/10262018

Ancient history, but I experienced a version of what Rob addressed at a job
30 years ago.  I don't see it getting any better in the future.  What I had
was a tape produced on another system, at a density that was twice what the
drive on my employer's system could handle.  Tape had to be regenerate at a
lower density.  After that fiasco, I would have naively assumed the issue
would not happen again.  But, it did, tape was prepared by same person.
Too many people at my employer were already confused about tape density.
Never heard of tape or used it.

John McKee

On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 1:15 PM Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Of course, if you encrypt tapes and retain permanently that can be really
> fun digging that ancient tape out of the archives to find you no longer
> have a device which can read it, let alone process an encrypted tape.
>
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