[Gllug] backup solution

[Adam Bower]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 06:48:59AM +0100, Alain Williams wrote:
> On Tue 08 Jul Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> > Buying second-hand kit is fine if it comes with a warranty, you won't
> > get that from E-Bay.
> 
> One very important point: to check that the backups are readable, do
> check that what is on the tape is what you wrote last to it -- years ago
> I had some customers discover, far too late, that the write head had stopped
> working months ago, so the data on the tape looked OK, but was not what
> they put on it the night before !

Further to this make sure that your backup is readable on someone elses tape
drive and not just your tapedrive. I have seen a DLT drive that read and wrote
tapes fine, just that nobody elses DLT would read the tapes this drive wrote.

It was some version of a head fault, or course this would not be a problem
until either the drive broke forever or the building burnt down.

Adam
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