First time was software, back when I was maintaining a database on an 8086 machine that used EIDE drives (remember that hell?) Second time it was the drive. It went bad and took out the tapes. The person overseeing the backups was getting errors, but didn't tell anyone until the very last tape, which I was thankfully able to recover data from and send it to the Accounting Software vendor so they could rebuild our accounting database. I forget what the issue was on the third one, but in the first case the tape backup software was telling us the backups (with verify) were successful!
Bob On May 31, 2012, at 9:45 AM, Tim Jones wrote: >> On May 30, 2012, at 1:00 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: >> >>> 3 times I had tape backups fail me when I needed them most. I will never, >>> no ever, no not ever use tape again. >>> >>> Bob > > I can feel your pain as we hear nightmare stories all the time, but I would > be willing to bet a case of your favorite beer that the problem was your > software, not you tape or tape drive (unless your tapes were physically > damaged). Maybe you should try a different backup application. > > I've been doing this stuff for almost 30 years (I was part of the hardware > design team for Archive) and I've not once seen a tape (any type - QIC, DAT, > DLT, AIT, VXA, LTO, and others) fail due to anything short of physical damage > when the backup software wasn't the real problem. > > Tim > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
