Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 15:16:48 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How many backups per DAT? Message-ID: <19970714151648.LY15498@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199707140615.XAA22533@MindBender.serv.net>; from Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com on Jul 13, 1997 23:15:49 -0700 References: <199707140615.XAA22533@MindBender.serv.net>
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As Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote: > I've been cleaning the drive once a month, as they recommend (doing > weekly full backups), so I don't think that's the reason the light is > comming on. Wasn't it after each ten backups, plus after each new cassette? > I seem to remember a discussion on this long ago, where someone else > claimed that DATs only last for a limited time. Does this sound > correct? They say about 10 or 20 backups per cassette. But be aware about the not very exciting durability: a customer of us recently came with four cassettes, two years old. None of them was readable without errors. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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