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Hamuko on Dec 24, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Managing tape drives and libraries with the Unix/L...

>A RAID array isn't a backup.

Who said it was?

>Your data is still live on it, an "rm -rf" away from destruction.

How is accidental deletion not a problem with tapes?

wazoox on Dec 24, 2022 [–]

Unless you store your tapes right next to your cache of neodymium magnets, that should be pretty easy. Writing to a tape is very deliberate generally. Much more than writing to disks.

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