I don't agree with your user that restoring is necessary - that just puts
more wear and tear on your tape.
But my personal experience leads me to agree that 1 copy of the data on DLT
is not adequate protection for business critical data.

We use copy pools, and keep 1 copy of the data offsite, 2 onsite for the
systems that use DLT tape.
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Wanda Prather
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
443-778-8769
wanda_prather AT jhuapl DOT edu

"Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think" -
Scott Adams/Dilbert
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: GSHEPPAR@CUUKMAIL [SMTP:guy_sheppard AT UK.CU DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 1999 5:26 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      DLT business comfort
>
> To:         I1017261@IBMMAIL   IBMMAIL -I1017261 *ibmmail.I1017261
> Dear All,
>
> I'm having some problems convincing one area of business that they are
> adequately protected using DLT. They want us to keep restoring the tapes
> to
> make sure they are usable. Anyone got and docs. that would help me
> convince
> them it's not necessary. Other than MTB, headlife and tape usage stats -
> I've
> got those.
>
> Thanks, Guy.