[Wylug-help] Tape drive advice

[mikeb at gbdirect.co.uk]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 10:04:31AM +0000, Darran Rimron wrote:
>
>
> Steven Dodd wrote:
>
> >>>>Don't forget the cleaning tape.
> >>>
> >And use it according to the cleaning schedule for the drive, don't
> >wait until you can't read your tapes back.  Which brings up another
> >bit of good practice.  Periodically restore the tapes back to make
> >sure they are readable.
>
> It's good practice to set backups to write+verify -- at least then you
> know ASAP if the tape is unreadable...

I presume you have two controller cards and two tape drives? An offsite
backup is only of use if you can read it - if a fire destroys the tape
drive, can you read the backups at another location?

Mike