Re: Unattended ontape

Andy Kent wrote: > I thought unattended anything was expressly discouraged with ontape? Unattended ontape is pure evil. [watch the accusations fly now!] > What if you get an error message, what if it needs to issue you with a > prompt you weren't expecting, etc. People who can definitely fit on one tape can "get away with it" but if something goes wrong (such as an unwritable tape), it'll be hours before you get to try to fix it the next day, and that means your only workable backup is a few more hours older. Most businesses can't really afford that loss of work. In my opinion, when someone does the work and follows a ritual, any changes of behaviour can be detected much sooner and more reliably.