On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 11:14, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> 2)  Send a full tapecycle's worth of tapes offsite.

I'd like to make a slight technical correction here-- I believe it
should be "a full dumpcycle's worth of tapes", as the tapecycle is the
total number of tapes in rotation.  Taking all your tapes offsite would
probably be counterproductive.  8^P

There may be an arbitrary number of dumpcycles within the tapecycle. 
For example, I have a config where the tapecycle is 100 (10 magazines of
10 tapes each for an Exabyte library), and the dumpcycle is 10 days with
1 tape used per day.  So each magazine contains an entire dumpcycle.  I
keep one of these rotated offsite at all times.

Cheers,
Eric