[H-GEN] Assistance Required

Sandra Milne silne at optushome.com.au
Sat Mar 30 06:22:15 EST 2002


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well for the onsite stored backups, only current tape is taken out of the 
safe, but you're right because there are 3 or 4 being done at once. it'd be 
so easy to put the wrong tape in the wrong case, which would really suck if 
something went wrong. i don't envy the job, just the experience.

Sandra.

At 21:09 30/03/2002 +1000, you wrote:
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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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