Re: Will ontape backup to disk damage the disks?

Neil Truby wrote: > <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. and sometimes even read :D