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This has been our desire for quite a while now.  There is really no way
to tell when your lights-out backups are going to still be running when
the lights come on because they're awaiting the next tape.
 
Rick McCahan
DRC
 
 
>Date:    Tue, 21 Mar 1995 10:21:41 -0800
>From:    Jeff Vance <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Appended DAT backups
 
>I think the SIGMPE item related to DAT tapes (95M22 - Show amount of DAT
>tape remaining) is based on some of our customers asking us for a way
>to know if they have enough tape on their last (may be only) DAT reel
>to do an operatorless system backup.  In other words, if they knew they
>only had 10,000 bytes left on their last DAT and their backed-up disk
>space is growing at 5,000 bytes/week then they know they will run out of
>tape in 2 weeks (and could therefore delete files or get another DAT
>drive, etc.)
 
>Jeff Vance, MPE Lab
 
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