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Re: AW: archiving tapes?!

2005-01-28 14:06:46
Subject: Re: AW: archiving tapes?!
From: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <rzewnickie AT rfa DOT org>
To: Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:59:32 -0500
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 12:39:34PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> Sebastian Kösters wrote:
> >Ok. I must label every tape to get a working index.
> >But I only have DailySet100 up to DailySet199. What happened when I'am at
> >199 and want to label the next tape? I think I have to start at DailySet100
> >again but what happened with the index/tape that was DailySet100 before?
> Change/extend the regexpr for "labelstr" in amanda.conf.  Mine is:
> labelstr ARCHIVE-[0-9][0-9][0-9]
> That would count up to 999 tapes (I started at 001).  If necessary
> make it four digits.
> I bet you won't even have a suitable tapedrive that can read your
> tapes 20 years from now (doing 50 tapes each year).

what are some good options for long term archival storage?
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