[Wylug-help] Tape drive advice

[Gary Stainburn]

On Sunday 30 January 2005 10:27 am, mikeb at gbdirect.co.uk wrote:
> 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
>

Good point Mike.

Actually, assuming it works at our Leeds site, I will be doing the same
at Doncaster and so will be okay, but I hadn't thought of the problem
until you mentioned it

Gary
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