alt Hacker NewsThis is actually super useful for real world stuff. Thanks for this.
Tape is boring but when an intern / AI / tectonic plate accidently destroys your database setup it is a huge lifesaver
Anybody know what these fancy Oracle tapes are? Is it just their implementation of a regular standard?
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tempay • yesterday at 9:25 PM
See this conference talk from last week: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1471803/contributions/6967379/
There isn’t a recording but slides at linked from that page.
If it's Oracle Tape, it's proprietary T10000-series 1/2in linear tape and associated drives, that they got when they absorbed Sun (and Sun got when they bought StorageTek). Multiple vendors made tape media for these, but they were not compatible w/ LTO tape nor the IBM 3590-series enterprise tape format.