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  3. January 2005

Re: PEER REVIEW please of V5R2 to V5R3 plan

David,

The media I have was used when we installed the Model 800 a year ago and only used the one pass.

Using a cleaning tape just before an "upgrade" save is always a part of my plan, I just didn't list it this time.

Thanks.

Roger

On 1/18/2005 9:59 AM, David Gibbs wrote:

Urbanek, Marty wrote:

One suggestion regarding multiple backup copies, and anybody please
correct me if I'm wrong, rather than doing multiple saves, if you
have two drives available maybe you could do DUPTAP instead and get
your multiple copies with the system still up, plus it would verify
that the first copy is actually readable all the way through.


If he did a duptap instead of a 2nd backup, and the first backup had some logical flaw (as apposed to a physical flaw), then all he would be doing is duplicating a bad backup.

Roger: simple as this sounds, I would highly recommend you get brand new media for your backups and run a tape cleaning cartridge before doing each backup.

david


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