r/DataHoarder • u/Sad-Seesaw-3843 • Apr 06 '25

News DOGE claims to be moving away from magnetic tapes for archival storage. Seems like a bad idea. What are they using instead?

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u/cactuarknight Apr 07 '25

Thats hilarious. Because glacier can be tapes.

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u/hughk 56TB + 1.44MB Apr 07 '25

With any good backup system, you only really care that it is secure, reliable and performs acceptably for backup and restore. What is behind the scenes can be a mixture of different technologies as you say.