On 1/18/22 11:21 AM, Jonathan Chapman via cctalk wrote:
I don't do a reinstall of SunOS every day, though!
Fair enough.
If I had a process where something might fail in between uses, I'd
augment the process to re-write the image to a (new instance of) tape
before I try to use it.
Yeah, it's not like irreplaceable data is being lost. But when they
fail, you have to at least re-band another tape, and with this stuff
pulling oxide off, probably clean the drive too. And of course write
a new tape out.
I get that.
I was actually thinking of something more dastardly like a process that
generates data as a one and done. As such the entire process that
generates the data needs to be re-done. Extrapolate backwards /after/
doing the physical tape maintenance.
"Tape" is I think what most people call them :P
Ya. But "tape" is not descriptive in my opinion, especially when you
have other types of tape; DLT, DAT, 9-track, etc. ;-)
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Grant. . . .
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