Kathleen wrote:
> Do you send backup tapes or clone tapes offsite?  THe clone verifies it 
> was a good backup, but how do you verify the clone...reclone?  Just 
> curious.  Thought I saw a post that said somebody was keeping clone tapes 
> onsite and backups offsite.
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It depends on why you are sending tapes off-site.  If you are doing it
for disaster recovery, you want to send your original off-site, not the
clone.  The original is always the "best" copy of the data -- the clone
is never going to be better (if there is an error on the original it
will be on the clone, but an error on the clone is not necessarily on
the original).

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