On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> Tapes are good if you know what they are doing. Must keep the heads
> clean. Cannot expect to take a tape made in one and read it in another
> (most of the time works but sometimes it doesnt). You have to have a
> schedule of testing the tapes. Something like once a week restore a
> random file and once a month restore a whole partition (if you have the
> space). At least this way the surprises are minimized.
>
Yep.... that oughta do it. :-) I've heard horror stories about people
who keep reusing the same tapes over and over and wonder why they
can't restore off a tape that's 5 years old and has innumerable
"writes" to it. :-)
John
