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From: ghg@en.ecn.purdue.edu (George Goble)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: How many times can a 8mm tape be used?
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.202719.7372@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 18 Mar 91 20:27:19 GMT
References: <6700@rex.cs.tulane.edu>
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In article <6700@rex.cs.tulane.edu> mb@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Mark Benard) writes:
>We are using over-the-counter 8mm tapes, name brands labelled for
>video use, for backups on a Exabyte-based drive.  What is a reasonable
>upper limit for the number of times these tapes should be used for
>(1) daily incrementals which are kept only one week and (2) weekly backups
>which are kept 4 to 5 weeks?

about 800 passes.

--ghg