On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 9:48 pm, Luca Olivetti wrote: > civileme wrote: > > Then one day I arrived at work to find the fileserver unresponsive. I > > eventually powered down and found the disk would not boot and enough of > > it was corrupted to make the rest inaccessible. OK no problem, data is > > on tapes, let's reload OS--- done reach for tape > > > > Oops--tape is unreadable > > reach for two week old tape--Errrr gee that one is no good either > > Tapes sent to data recovery service--well whattayaknow They charged > > quite a bit to give me the bad news that six years of work was lost. > > That's what the verify feature of your backup program is there for. > It take twice the time and it'll probably cause more wear and tear on > the tape but at least you'll know the tape is readable. > 'Fraid not. I was running backup with full verify, but it still didn't stop the drive from refusing the tape next time, saying it couldn't read it. And I was using good quality branded DAT tapes.
Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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