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>> It's news to me that DAT was ever intended as anything other than a
>> studio format.
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> That's why it sucks so hard as a backup medium - it was only intended to
> be used for lossy data (ie, audio), and was adapted for use for backup
> medium.
Digital is digital. If you lose digital data, generally it utterly
screws everything up.
I too spent many years using DAT (actually DDS-4) tapes for backup. We
had occasional problems, but nothing major.
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