From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Feb 3 15:00:43 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA10892 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 15:00:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA10887 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 15:00:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA05561 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Wed, 3 Feb 1999 23:42:06 +0100 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.8/8.6.12) id WAA00648; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 22:51:49 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199902032151.WAA00648@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: SCSI Tape Drives... In-Reply-To: <19990203210128.25194@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Feb 3, 99 09:01:28 pm" To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 22:51:49 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As J Wunsch wrote... > As Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > Hmmm. You better do a couple of retension wind/rewinds every now and > > then. Really helps to keep QIC cartridges happy. > > In the end, they're retensioning regularly, i guess. I do a full > backup of three partitions each weekend, starting at BOT, rewind it, > append daily increments throughout the week, rewind again, etc. The > full backups itself should suffice to wind the tape several times from > end to end. Sounds ok. What really tensions the tapes is when you can't keep the tape streaming, so start/stop operation. Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message