ian@sq.com (Ian Darwin) (03/26/91)
Omar A. Karim (karim@uncecs.edu) writes: > BOTTOM LINE: Misaligned tape heads can make ALL your dumps USELESS! That's correct. WHENEVER your tape drive is serviced, alligned, or otherwise modified, as well as periodically, it is your (or whoever is the system admin at your particular site) responsibility to try reading newly-written backup tapes on a DIFFERENT drive. No ifs, ands, or buts. This should not be costly if done as part of an off-site storage program for backups (why bother doing backups at all if ALL will be ashes when your building burns down)? Ian Darwin ian@sq.com Verify your backups today -- tomorrow strikes at dawn!