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Default Tape backup, a resurection of a DAT backup system (originally mentioned in the Damaged USB Drive thread).

En el artículo , Johny B
Good escribió:

The question is though, will it recognise the backup format used by
the Cheyenne backup program?


Almost certainly not. You're on a loser if you expect tapes written by
one backup utility to be readable by those written using another. Even
different versions of the same backup software can refuse to read tapes
written by an earlier version.

You're really best off sticking with the backup provided by Windows -
that way, if you wipe and reinstall the OS, you know you'll be able to
restore the tapes using the software included with Windows.

Or use something ubiquitous like tar, which will mean you can use just
about any OS to read the tapes.

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