Comment Re:Tape Culture Fallacy (Score 1) 284
At my first employer we had exactly this situation. The secretary used to change the backup tapes on the server. We, as a team of 10 developers had been working around 6 months developing software modules when we got a crash. It turned out the backups had been made on cleaning tapes.
This was in 1992, noone had the opportunity to make multiple copies, we only had our disk and the backup. 60 man months of work gone.