[squeaky-clean]

That assumes that you're even doing the write in the first place, and not just logging a million "Error device not found" on your backup task. Speaking from personal experience, haha.

[Izkata]

OP implies something like that is what was going on:

> as I questioned if the tapes were even being written to.

> I would be in the server room and never saw the blinky lights on the tape...well.. blink.