On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 at 9:17am, Kurt Yoder wrote > You probably want at least one more tape in "tapecycle", so at least 6. > Everyone is always saying you want extras in case there's a bad run. > > (Not that I understand this; after all, if there's a bad run, why not > just increment "tapecycle" then?)
Because that bad run may clobber the only level 0 of a particular filesystem that you have on tape. Upping tapecycle at that point is closing the barn door after the horses are gone... -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
