From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Feb 3 12:20:52 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA15825 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 12:20:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA15812 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 12:20:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id VAA04952 for freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 21:20:46 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.9.1/8.9.1) id VAA04336; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 21:01:30 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from j) Message-ID: <19990203210128.25194@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 21:01:28 +0100 From: J Wunsch To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI Tape Drives... Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch References: <19990203072025.42457@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199902031834.TAA00711@yedi.iaf.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: <199902031834.TAA00711@yedi.iaf.nl>; from Wilko Bulte on Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 07:34:38PM +0100 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As Wilko Bulte wrote: > Exabytes (primarily the earlier ones) are consumer-electronics based > cr* Sounds like our drives are from those series. > 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. -- 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. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message