Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have had major problems with HP tape backup solutions at the office which even HP themselves had no means to read. Cheers Jayanand On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Pasvorn Boonmark <pasvorn at boonmark.net>wrote: > Bob, > > This is very true. I have some of the tape from the '80 that I have > no machine to read it. > > I think we had a discussion about this a month ago and someone > suggested a good solution. > You need to rotate your archival media - not only the media, but also > the technology behind it. > > For example, I have a number of tape, when CD available, I should have > move that to CD. > When Blue-Ray is available, I should move from CD to Blue-Ray, etc.. etc.. > > This is also true to the software that is used to archive them. For > example, Vista archive does not read older Window back-up software. > You need to get an additional software to read it. > > For Unix, in general, "tar" work great. :) > > -Pasvorn > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >