> However, "couple (of) months" seems incongruent with "day-to-day".
I don't do a reinstall of SunOS every day, though! > I am assuming that the day-to-day operation to mean that the source data > is still accessible on the source system. As such, it's probably simply > a matter of annoyance when a QIC* fails and you must re-do the process > that was using it. Yeah, it's not like irreplaceable data is being lost. But when they fail, you have to at least re-band another tape, and with this stuff pulling oxide off, probably clean the drive too. And of course write a new tape out. > *Can I use /just/ QIC as a proper name or should I say /QIC/ /cartridge/ > analogous to VIN number? "Tape" is I think what most people call them :P Thanks, Jonathan