On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 14:31:42 +0000, John Dawes wrote: > >It seems that the tape is empty. My question is if the tape goes scratch the >data cannot be recovered even though it has not been overwritten? > >I have no problems with physical tapes which have gone scratch and not reused. > >I would appreciate your thoughts. > When my then employer designed a real (not virtual) tape library it was perceived as a customer requirement that the scratch pool be managed FIFO.
Windows (by default?) requires that I answer a prompt to confirm when I move a file to Trash, and again when I empty Trash. Customers like to be protected from their own impulsiveness. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
