Greetings everyone,
I am in the process of reviewing the backup procedures for the company I have recently taken employment at.
Looking at the log files, our backups were failing on a regular bases. Called Dell and they changed the drive out as it was still under warranty.
Everything was great, for a day.
Starting to bomb out again. In the morning, we look at the backup and it had ejected the tape and the software says “loading media”.
I asked how old the tapes were, but no one knew for sure. My opinion is, if they don’t know when they were last replaced, they are to old. I ordered new tapes are are waiting for them to come in.
How many times will you use a tape before retiring it? (dat72).
How many tapes are in the rotation at a time?
Do you pull and save at set intervals, such as end of month or end of year?
Thanks for you input.
jd
