Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 21:01:28 +0100 From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI Tape Drives... Message-ID: <19990203210128.25194@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199902031834.TAA00711@yedi.iaf.nl>; from Wilko Bulte on Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 07:34:38PM %2B0100 References: <19990203072025.42457@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199902031834.TAA00711@yedi.iaf.nl>
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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
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