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[Jason Henry Parker]

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Sandra Milne <silne at optushome.com.au> writes:

> At 19:49 30/03/2002 +1000, you wrote:
> >(Although this does remind me of when our tape unit went gaga:
> >apparently labelling the tapes (DDS3) was the major cause of unit
> >failure; little bits of the label would rub off and land in the
> >gearings of the unit!  After some jollying about I managed to have the
> >supplier send an advance unit so we weren't without.  Phew!)
> now i understand why we label the cases at work and not the
> tapes. hopefully sometime before my traineeship finishes somebody will
> trust me enough to teach me how to do the backups :-)

Well, I will say that (a) I *carefully* label my tapes, and (b)
labelling cases only is an exercise fraught with danger unless the
tapes are labelled on the media (as are AMANDA tapes) and can be read
without the backup/restore software.

Just as an aside, this is why OSS backup stuff *rocks*.
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