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Subject: Re: Should we reuse mag tapes?
Message-ID: <1929@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: Wed, 4-Mar-87 04:39:25 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  4 04:39:25 1987
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Summary: make two copies

In article <176200004@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu>, falk@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
> ... would *you* want to trust valuable data to an untested medium?

If the data is valuable you should make multiple copies.  No media
is perfect.  Once you understand this, it becomes clear that the
tape drive used to make the copies is more critical than the tapes
(all backup copies made on a broken tape drive will be unreadable).

Don Speck   speck@vlsi.caltech.edu  {seismo,rutgers,ames}!cit-vax!speck