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What Tape Drive Format are you using for backup?

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Mar 15, 2026736 views
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I like the benefit of tape in that you get permanent snapshots of data at a given point in time, but popular business tape backup i.e. LTO is still expensive. So if you are using tape for backups at home/small business what did you go with and why?

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I have stopped using tape backups for a long time. And, after the problems with optical media (CD/DVD), I have actually started using external USB drives and solid state flash drives for backup. It also helps to keep a checksum (md5sum) along with t…

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