Multiple choice technology storage

What is “Shoe Shining”

  1. Rewinding the Tape

  2. Stop the tape and re-wind to beginning

  3. rewind to a seek position

  4. Stop, rewind and seek where last streaming end
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Explanation

Shoeshining describes the repetitive back-and-forth movement of a tape drive. This occurs when the data transfer rate from the computer falls below the tape drive's writing speed, forcing the drive to stop, rewind, and seek the last position where streaming ended to resume writing.

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