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A number of reasons. The backup routine will not always require two tapes,
depending on what day of the billing cycle it is.  The backup must take
advantage of a late night down period when a small amount of users are in
the system, hence the cron job.  The backup routine is also consistent
across 5 different locations, and subset of which will not require two
tapes on any day for some time....but when they do we'd like to be able to
regain control of the script to interact.

Most important reason....to satisfy my curiosity :).  It was a question I
honestly couldn't answer.

Thanks,
John


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