Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 22:51:49 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI Tape Drives... Message-ID: <199902032151.WAA00648@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <19990203210128.25194@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Feb 3, 99 09:01:28 pm"
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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
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