Re: Can I use only one tape for backing up all the week?

[Xavier HUMBERT - Labo Informatique]

Le 07/02/2001 a 15:22 -0500 , John R. Jackson ecrivait :

> Second is that positioning sounds nice and logical to a programmer or
> someone only used to working with disk, but when you throw in the reality
> of a physical tape device, bad stuff starts to happen.

On WinNt an Macs, that's the way Dantz's Retrospect works for years. I
never, never, lost a tape.

Otoh, mt(1) blows me a tape so badly that I had to physically open the
DAT drive to eject it :-(

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