>>>>> On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:02:55 -0500, Ryan Novosielski said: > > Looking for a bit of advice here... hoping someone may have some pointers. > > The back story is that I have three incremental tapes. Each one is written > to for one business week. The total of the jobs per day is roughly > 300MB. So, for the 5 days, about 1.5GB. I'm concerned about premature tape > wear in this scenario -- writing to the same 1.5GB at the beginning of the > tape all of the time must be a bad idea. > > So, I guess what I'm looking for is some way to keep my current rotation (3 > tapes, 1 week per tape) but write to a larger part of the tape > surface. These are DDS4 tapes, so I could write several times to the same > tape. > > Any hints?
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