It may seem like a pain in the ass - but wait until you try restoring a system from a backup tape and the first tape doesn't work, neither does the second, or t

It may seem like a pain in the ass - but wait until you try restoring a system from a backup tape and the first tape doesn't work, neither does the second, or the third ..... Learned that lesson early in my career - the fourth and final tape did restore. NB The backups weren't my responsibility, but restoring the payroll database my shell scripting error had nuked most definitely was.