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Arno Lehmann wrote:

>> In the office we have Sun DDS-3 driver,
> 
> Well, DDS is often called WORN - Write Once Read Never :-)
> 
> Compared to other tape technology, DDS is really unreliable. I guess 
> most people here would agree with this statement.
>
> ... cut ...
>
> My own experience is that LTO, AIT, DLT, SDLT and QIC tape 
> technologies are quite robust.
> 
> I'm actually using DDS drives and tapes, but only for non-critical 
> data - mainly as a playground for Bacula.

I am using it for production. I regularly attempt restores and have not
had a problem. I replace tapes when Bacula starts calling them old. If
they didn't work at all, no one would buy them. They may be much less
reliable than DLT, but they do the job in a lot of cases.

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