various little tidbits

On Monday 11 August 2003 07:59 pm, Mike Starke wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 07:32:52PM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> /_
> /_3 - Perhaps this is more philosophical...why does all tape backup
> /_software suck?
>
> Isn't that the truth. I have used at least a dozen differant ones,
> some *nix, the rest Windows....some cost three arms and four legs.
> They are all the same......... :-(

A BIG part of the reason that most (all?) tape backup is difficult to work
with is because tape media is difficult to work with. As one that has
written "tape" code that is on the inside of a a "tape" drive, the protocol
and operation of tape media is simply a pain in the (name you favorite
painful place)!

Random access is far superior to any sequential media, IMO.

Alan