I feel that I have to warn you about using tape for backup. I used it myself for many years. and felt very safe. Well, that was until I was setting up a new machine, and thought that I should start by reading in the last backup. What a disappointment that was. Although the backup system was "state of the art" with read-after-write to verify that the backup went well, I was only able to restore fragments and then it refused to continue. I tried the same with earlier backups, and the result was exactly the same. I complained, received new units, and the result was equally bad!

After that I started using CD's for backup. later I switched to DVD's. Today I use USB-sticks for backups.

>Thanks. I would agree. In fact they used to keep their monthly tapes forever - the cost of tapes for a year is really not that expensive.
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>>In my opinion there should be a separate cycle that rotates one monthly backup over one year. This way you can go back to any month up to one year back. You need an additional 12 tapes which are taken at the end of each month and recycle the following year, so you just label them with the name of the month.
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>>Besides that you can have a yearly backup that never rotates, so an additional 12 tapes for the last 12 years.
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