>>>>> On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:02:55 -0500, Ryan Novosielski said:
> 
> Looking for a bit of advice here... hoping someone may have some pointers.
> 
> The back story is that I have three incremental tapes. Each one is written
> to for one business week. The total of the jobs per day is roughly
> 300MB. So, for the 5 days, about 1.5GB. I'm concerned about premature tape
> wear in this scenario -- writing to the same 1.5GB at the beginning of the
> tape all of the time must be a bad idea.
> 
> So, I guess what I'm looking for is some way to keep my current rotation (3
> tapes, 1 week per tape) but write to a larger part of the tape
> surface. These are DDS4 tapes, so I could write several times to the same
> tape.
> 
> Any hints?

My advice is to forget about making overcomplicated -- a branded HP DDS4 tape
costs less that $10.

__Martin

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