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uniqueuidtoday at 12:14 PM1 replyview on HN

Short answer: no

Tape is really complicated and physically challenging, and there are no incentives for people investing insane amounts of time for something that has almost no fan base. See the blog post about why you don’t want tape from some time ago.

Edit: https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/lto-tape-backups-for-linux-n...


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embedding-shapetoday at 12:47 PM

> there are no incentives for people investing insane amounts of time for something that has almost no fan base

Like that has stopped anyone before? :p Probably explain why we haven't seen anything FOSS in that ecosystem yet though.