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Originally Posted by MrBottomTooth
Its not like a regular audio cassette tape. This is a tape made for data storage only. They are wider. They were commonly used for backup purposes years ago. They were very slow so you couldn't actually read data off them in real time, like if you wanted to listen to an mp3. Basically for backups only. I assume these ones are pretty similar.
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Backup tapes are still in use for absolute last resort data recovery, and long term archiving, but they're generally impractical for a first level restore.
I remember a disgruntled ex-employee wiped a bunch of servers at a host a few years back. They had everything backed up on tape, but because it was so slow the restore time was going to take several days (maybe even weeks IIRC). The host had obviously not taken such a situation into consideration when choosing to use only tape for backups.