Tape Requirements for the Daily Cumulative, Weekly Cumulative Schedule

With this schedule, you need six tapes if you want to reuse daily tapes. However, you need nine tapes if you want to use four different daily tapes:

• One tape for the level 0 backup

• Four tapes for Fridays

• One or four daily tapes

If you need to restore a complete file system, you need the following tapes:

• The level 0 tape

• The most recent Friday tape

• The most recent daily tape since the last Friday tape, if any