Re: Backup media

Had a boss at a previous employer who wanted to know why we didn't use the same tape every day. Good grief. Ok then, why not just use two... switch every other day? Good grief.



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From: Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 12/18/17 12:57 PM (GMT-08:00)
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Backup media

Used the same one tape for every nightly backup? Good grief!

Back in my consulting life it was amazing that the time most often that a
system died was during backup. So, if you didn't rotate media, you were
toast.


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From: Holger Scherer <hs@xxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 12/18/2017 03:43 PM
Subject: Re: Backup media
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Agree,
i currently work on a customers system which crashed. And they did not
change the DAT160 tape for daily backup for years :-/

-h

Am 18.12.2017 um 19:58 schrieb DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:


Soon as you pick and acquire, DUP all your DAT160 tapes to the new

format. Do It Now. Trusting the DAT160 is bad and it will not work on any
new system so get those tapes migrated.

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