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[Greg Black]

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Jason Henry Parker wrote:

| 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.

Personally, I label the cases, the tapes and the media (with my
own backup software which does amanda-like stuff, but the way I
like it).  The only label that matters is the one on the media,
but the others do make it easier for the operators to locate the
tape they need.

BTW, Jason, we seem to have decided to wait until you were well
enough to attend the meeting for that panel on backups ...

Greg

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