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Re: Are Tapes Verified During Backup?

Lukas,

I was pretty sure I had read that the LTO didn't do a read after write.
Guess I was incorrect.

Thanks for setting me straight

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Lukas Beeler <
lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 04:50, Kirk Goins <kirkgoins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We could go back to the days when 'real' tape drives had multiple heads
and
on writes the second head when then read what was just written...

That's exactly what LTO already does. And there's really no reason not
to use LTO in your IBM i.

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