[nylug-talk] Recovery is not about media, but availability and storage -- WAS: backup media

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 19:47 -0400, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> LTO is the 2000-'25 format.  It also has write compatibility back 2-3
> generations (we're possibly going to see 4), with read compatibility at
> least 4 (and likely 6).

Oops, I was reading a specific vendor's product line claim, not the
generic, commodity LTO reality.  But the 5/10/15 rule still applies in
commodity case.


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