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by ghshephard 5043 days ago
Until I took over backups, and instituted a rotation methodology, the guy prior to me just bought another 60 AIT-3 tapes every month and shipped them off site to Iron Mountain.

Agreed - how-often you re-use tapes (and whether you do) - has a dramatic effect on "system cost" of your backup system.