[plug] [OT] Tape back-up

[Chris Caston]

On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 21:25, Bernd Felsche wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 March 2004 21:16, Chris Caston wrote:
> >
> > Anyway the tape is a ~40gb DDS4 part no: HP - C57 18a ( think but
> > if there is a discrepancy it would be ether miscommunication over
> > GSM or my own handwriting)
> >
> > So what are the deal with tape drives are there many different
> > standards or are they mostly the same?
> 
> DDS-4 are mostly the same; save for mis-alignments.

Thanks Bernd. Any hints of where to buy these critters?
> 
> The actual archive format may be an issue. You have to find out what
> they used to make the backup.
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