[H-GEN] Linux Backup

[Robert Brockway]

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On Fri, 9 May 2003, Robert Brockway wrote:

> Hi David.  Demonstrably, harddrives & CD fails far less often than tape.
> DDS tapes don't reliably store data past a year & can only be written a
> very limited number of times.  Harddrives typically last 5 years or more
> and can be written hundreds or thousands of times.

That was meant to be "hundreds _of_ thousands of times".

Rob

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