Rotate tapes and other media

An important part of a good save procedure is to have more than one set of save media. When you perform a recovery, you may need to go back to an old set of your media if one of the following is true:

Your most recent set is damaged.
You discover a programming error that has affected data on your most recent save media.

At a minimum, rotate three sets of media, as follows:

Save 1         Set A
Save 2         Set B
Save 3         Set C
Save 4         Set A
Save 5         Set B
Save 6         Set C

And so on.

Many installations find that the best approach is to have a different set of media for each day of the week. This makes it easy for the operator to know which media to mount.