On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 18:20, Michael Perry wrote: > I have sufficient tapes to handle up to a 14 tape tapecycle but some of > them are rather old I think and many are new so I am unsure about the > relative health of the tapes. >
If you run amverify you should have a fair chance of discovering bad tapes. If you run an amverify *before* backup you will also discover tapes that have degraded while they've been stored. Amverify just checks if the tapes can be read and the data is valid. Regards, Ole Kaas
