What Tape Drive Format are you using for backup? [closed]

I have stopped using tape backups for a long time.
And, after the problems with optical media (CD/DVD),
I have actually started using external USB drives and solid state flash drives for backup.

It also helps to keep a checksum (md5sum) along with the backups,
and, test them periodically.

With optical media backups, it helps to check every year and probably transfer the data to a new optical disc at some good time.

I don't use tape backups anymore. That data which I do back up is usually somewhere in "The Cloud" (gmail/google apps and GitHub).

However, when I did backups regularly, I used an Ecrix (Exabyte) VXA-1 tape drive. It holds about 33G uncompressed and the tapes can take a hell of a beating and still work. I used BRU to back up, as it was tar-like (I'm a Linux geek), and I used to work for the company that wrote the software (so I'm biased :)).