IMHO..
1) Get a New tape, tape is cheap.
2) Backup only what you need to backup
3) Using tape as Archive is too time consuming. Buy a harddrive. Drives are cheap.
FYI... When a tape is labeled 24G as in the DDS-3 that is with IDEAL compression of 2:1. This is usually not the case. As for getting less than what would be considered 1/2 the "advertised capacity" or 1:1 ratio, that is something that I have never seen myself. Are you possibly...
FYI... CRC's, bad blocks, etc.. The majority of these errors that are being reported are by the hardware back to the software. These CODES that are sent back are for some reason. The majority of these errors are HARDWARE. Media can also place a huge importance on the problems. Media should...
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