[Trevor]

On 10/05/2019 9:29 pm, Mike Rivers wrote:
On 5/9/2019 10:47 PM, Trevor wrote:
Yes because we have never had a problem with tape binder failure
casing massive problems with tape archive. Or fire destroying original
recordings leaving only even more inferior copies, if you are lucky.
So great now that you can have an infinite number of copies all
identical to the original!

Unfortunately, too many people have no backups of the original.

Digital backups have their own set of problems when it comes to long
term storage. You can play a tape until it falls apart, but if your
digital back up is on media or a format that's no longer "supported,"
you may not have the backup that you think you have.

Exactly, both have problems. One is fairly easily fixed with multiple
identical backups on different media and cloud which can be shifted to
another media as often as necessary. The other not so easily fixed in
case of fire, flood, tornado, or even just simple oxide shedding.
All archival facilities are transcribing tape to digital, but don't know
any transcribing digital to analog tape for archive?