I agree - the problem of filing the tapes is
a new problem, and in practice I probably
wouldn't let backup tapes get more than
about a year old (do they get rusty ? rustier ?)
if unused before taking a fresh copy.
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Pete Sharman wrote in message ...
>
>Think about the situation where you have a read-only tablespace that was
made
>read-only a year ago, and backed up at that stage. Can you imagine the
>administrative nightmare of having to go back through that many tapes to
find
>the damn backup? In theory, Jonathan is correct. In practice, I like to
back
>up my read-only tablespaces every so often for the reason just given. Of
>course, if we all had tape silos that could keep thousands of tapes ...
Received on Tue Mar 26 2002 - 01:27:43 CST
