>> It's news to me that DAT was ever intended as anything other than a
>> studio format.
>
> 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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