Martin Simmons wrote:

> Yes, that's what I do, but some people claim that it wastes time and wears out
> the tape drive for no good reason.  OTOH, it has detected several tape
> problems over the years I've been using Bacula.

What kind of tape media are you using? (DDS, DAT, DLT, LTO, etc)

LTOs verify the data on trailing read heads and rewrite any failures on 
the fly.

I haven't seen one failed tape in ~7 years of running Bacula.




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