Exabyte 8505XL - Manual (Page 36)

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Chapter 3: Preventive Maintenance
Replacing Data Cartridges
Approximately once each year, you may want to read all information on a
tape and check the read error statistics. If errors have increased significantly
since the previous test or if they exceed a certain predetermined threshold,
you should rearchive the data to a new tape and discard the old tape.