From: Donncha O Caoimh (donncha.ocaoimh at domain tradesignals.com)
Date: Fri 24 Aug 2001 - 11:45:44 IST
I was told that DAT tapes should be recycled after at most 10 weeks.
Would it be way too optimistic hoping they'll be reliable after that
length of time?
Donncha.
Conor Daly wrote:
> >
> > On that topic - how many people actually keep historical copies of backups ?
> > Is everyone just rolling over tapes, or do people run a grandfather/father/son
> > pattern with the occasional 'grandfather' tape being put into a 'keep forever'
> > stack. (just curious)
>
> Since we don't trust tapes here for more than about two uses, we do have
> something of the kind in operation here. It's just that the "keep forever"
> stack is a small metal box that gets emptied every night by the cleaners :-)
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