Code Analysis

DEP007

Page last updated 05 February 2021

TAPE as backup device is deprecated

Support for tape backup devices will eventually be removed.

It is unusual to use a tape backup as these devices  are comparatively expensive and unreliable. If code has a TAPE dumpdevice defined, it is probably legacy code that must be removed. 

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