[mdlug] Compression and Archiving

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 12:17 -0500, Robert Citek wrote:
> 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?

Hint: buy a second tape drive 5 years from now when that technology is
much cheaper.  Or go crazy and buy two.