Please settle an argument for us: Did you know that TAR stood for Tape ARchive? To clarify, I believe many people know this, someone else believes few people know and I am just old.
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The real question is how many of us actually wrote a tar archive to tape in their career? (/me raises hand)
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Yes on knowing it stands for Tape ARchive. Yes to using them to actually write to tape (this week, in fact!) and also to write to them over 'rsh' on SGI IRIX back in the day :D
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Yes/No for me. I've written to tape, but not with Unixey systems.
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When I was an intern, I used to have to go through a pile of tape drives each day to change the tapes. Every Tuesday, we'd seal that day's tapes into a tamper-proof bag (lol) and hand it off to Brink's or whoever. We never actually found out if the backups ever worked.
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Replying to @iagox86 @jeffmcjunkin @0xMatt @secureideas
“A backup is not a backup until you do a restore.” ~ Ancient SysAdmin proverb

Oct 13, 2022 · 8:53 PM UTC

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Replying to @hal_pomeranz @jeffmcjunkin @0xMatt @secureideas
100%! Thankfully, I'm not even sure those servers did anything, we'd outsourced all our IT years earlier. But nobody bothered to retire them or change the intern manual. I guess it's a case of "two wrongs cancel out" :)
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