archiving as opposed to backing up

From: Jochen Kunz <jkunz_at_unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
Date: Tue Sep 21 10:04:57 2004

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 04:19:14 -0400
"Teo Zenios" <teoz_at_neo.rr.com> wrote:

> Exactly why is DAT such a bad storage format?
Because the tapes get unreadable quite often and quick. The drives fail
nearly as often as the tapes. DAT is write only backup.

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tsch??,
       Jochen
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