At 11:05 AM 03/06/98 -0600, John Schneider wrote:
*SNIP*
>Please explain to this novice why, on the one hand, we
>implement a backup strategy to cover the possibility of loosing disks,
>be we ignore the possibility of the backup media itself going bad?
>
*SNIP*

Also, let's not forget that remote host disks do go bad, and that
performing a full restore from an "incremental forever" backup set
will usually result in a extraordinary number of tape mounts and
a correspondingly long restore window. Periodic full backups help
alleviate this problem.

Regards,
Doug

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