As I speak with users at the backup seminars I teach around the country, I often hear them say that they avoid using tape for long-term data retention, expressing their concern with something like, “They come out with a new format every few years, and then you can’t read your tapes.” While it is technically true that, eventually you’ll have to migrate data from old tapes to new media, and you should probably be able to go longer between migrations with tape than with disk archives.
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