Re: Backup media

yes, the *are* toast. Currently grabbing several DAT160 tapes from our stock to see if something is readable. One of the big caveats with DAT technology is the fact that every drive as some unique adjustmend which usually makes it hard to read a tape from Drive #1 to be read in Drive #2 some years later.

Their box crashed with 3 failed disks out of 6...

If we do not manage to get some tapes read, they lost 8 years of data *sigh*

And the reason for all of this is (as usual): the last person responsible for the box left years ago.

-h

Am 18.12.2017 um 21:57 schrieb Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>:

Used the same one tape for every nightly backup? Good grief!

Back in my consulting life it was amazing that the time most often that a
system died was during backup. So, if you didn't rotate media, you were
toast.