Will ontape backup to disk damage the disks? ~ Answered: amber (solid confidence) — Clear, unambiguous factual answer given (disks are designed for millions of write cycles); technically correct and uncontested, but the OP never explicitly replies to confirm.

Advisory only.

3 instance on AIX 5.2 ids 9.4 box. I do label 0 backup and compress to disk file daily and then tar all the disk files to tape in crontab. It spare me a lot of time to backup 3 instance archives. But I wonder that It will damage the disks after thousand times's file creation and compresses repeatly. Am I right ? Any better ways of backup ?

<roger@star2000.com.tw> wrote in message news:7ae423ab-44fc-4411-8497-f900f500b8b4@t26g2000prh.googlegroups.com... >3 instance on AIX 5.2 ids 9.4 box. > I do label 0 backup and compress to disk file daily > and then tar all the disk files to tape in crontab. > It spare me a lot of time to backup 3 instance archives. But I wonder > that It will damage the disks after thousand times's file creation and > compresses repeatly. Am I right ? Any better ways of backup ? No. Disks are designed to be written and re-written to millions of times.