Should we reuse mag tapes?

[mangler at cit-vax.UUCP]

In article <176200004 at uxc.cso.uiuc.edu>, falk at uxc.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
> ... would *you* want to trust valuable data to an untested medium?

If the data is valuable you should make multiple copies.  No media
is perfect.  Once you understand this, it becomes clear that the
tape drive used to make the copies is more critical than the tapes
(all backup copies made on a broken tape drive will be unreadable).

Don Speck   speck at vlsi.caltech.edu  {seismo,rutgers,ames}!cit-vax!speck