Backups [was Re: Is tape dead?]

Thomas Kula kula at tproa.net
Tue Sep 15 15:07:39 CDT 2015


On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 03:32:27PM -0400, ethan at 757.org wrote:
> 
> I would cut multiple tapes of anything you care about!
> 

It's not simply enough to cut multiple tapes (backups) of anything you
care about --- you must periodically *read* and *verify* those tapes
(backups), so that you can re-copy from a known good other copy if it is
damaged.

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Thomas L. Kula | kula at tproa.net | http://kula.tproa.net/


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