We just received several new TZ88 tapes drive for data archiving,
unfortunately we do not have many TZ88 tapes. We running these drives off
of Alpha 2100's, DU4.0 and an Alpha 3000, DU3.2b.
We were told there was a shortage of TZ88 tapes for these new drives.
Since we have a number of now outdated TK85K tapes, I decided to try
archiving to them. I was able to archive and restore at will.
Questions are,
1) Has anyone experienced reading/writing with older tapes to the
new drives.
2) Does anyone know of data loss or degardation with time.
3) Any compatability problems.
We use them for daily/weekly incremental, quick archiving basically using
dump command. Any horror stories will be summarized and passed on.
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Received on Tue Oct 29 1996 - 16:30:43 NZDT