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Average life for tape backup systems

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by jjuneau31

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What is the average life expectancy for backup systems (Example: IBM 3581-L3H)? 2, 5, 10 years?

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by patb071

We keep a backup for 20 days before the information is over wrote and we replace the tapes every 4-5 years.
any more you may run into issues. Better to be sake then sorry for backups.

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