[mdlug] Compression and Archiving

[Robert Citek]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Dan Pritts <danno at umich.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:43:04AM -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>> Tape is cheap, tape is reliable... buy a tape drive.
>
> Indeed.
>
> as long as you can find a working drive for whatever tape format
> you choose (hint, choose the market leader), tape is the most likely
> thing to be readable 20 years from now.

Is that a requirement?  That is, does the OP need to be able to read
the data in 20 years from now?

Regards,
- Robert