On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Kurt Buff <kurt.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > Tape wear should not be much of an issue, if you eliminate > shoe-shining. Modern tapes (LTOx, and later, I think) are rated for > enormous numbers of read/write cycles.
Are you sure of that? Last I looked (which was LTO2), the tape manufacturers were still advertising 2000 passes. A "pass" is defined as the tape moving across the read/write head. LTO uses serpentine tracks, so running the entire logical tape from start to end results in several passes. I believe most modern tape systems work the same way. Assuming you do a full verify with every backup, a single night's backup could easily mean ~10-20 passes. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
