[Veritas-bu] RE: Number of mounts before getting rid of a tape?

hear, hear.

They're pretty expensive, and our budget doesn't allow for replacing a
couple thousand tapes every year.  The recommended is, I believe, 25 mounts
(which works out to a yearly schedule if you're on a two-week retention) for
DLT III/IV, but I agree with Mark.  I wait until they become "questionable,"
and then set them up for degauss/destruction.


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Subject: [Veritas-bu] RE: Number of mounts before getting rid of a tape?


> Personally, I just wait until they fail.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Piszcz, Justin [mailto:jpiszcz AT servervault DOT com]
> Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 10:34 AM
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> Cc: Girard, Dan
> Subject: Number of mounts before getting rid of a tape?
>
>
> What is the number of recommended mounts before you deem a tape is too
> old to store data on it?
>
> Or do you just wait until they fail?
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