On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 11:14, Dave Sherohman wrote: > 2) Send a full tapecycle's worth of tapes offsite.
I'd like to make a slight technical correction here-- I believe it should be "a full dumpcycle's worth of tapes", as the tapecycle is the total number of tapes in rotation. Taking all your tapes offsite would probably be counterproductive. 8^P There may be an arbitrary number of dumpcycles within the tapecycle. For example, I have a config where the tapecycle is 100 (10 magazines of 10 tapes each for an Exabyte library), and the dumpcycle is 10 days with 1 tape used per day. So each magazine contains an entire dumpcycle. I keep one of these rotated offsite at all times. Cheers, Eric
