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On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, John Abreau wrote: > Hi, Scott. > > > If you used "mt rewind", that would just rewinds the tape, > and then it would get overwritten. I specified "mt rewoffl", > which rewinds and ejects the tape. Then you insert the next > tape for the next day's backups. So the first tape doesn't get > overwritten unless you reinsert the same tape. > > In a real-world situation, you'd actually use a tape library, > which would hold multiple tapes, and the mtx command > to tell the tape library to grab the ejected tape and insert > the next tape. Then you'd only change the tapes once a week > (for a 7-tape library) or once a month (for a 30-tape library).
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