Blake wrote:

> I have a problem doing a full system dump using:
>
> STORE @[log in to unmask]@;*DDS;DIRECTORY;MAXTAPEBUF;PROGRESS;SHOW
>
> I can neither RESTORE nor VSTORE any files from these backups.
>
> I suspect:
>
> 1) It might be something having to do with the number of files
> stored, since I am able to divide the full backup between two tapes of
>
> around 10000 and 6000 files, with the latter containing the ;DIRECTORY
> parm.
>
> 2)When the EOT is reached the tape rewinds and overwrites the
> previously
> stored information. There are 28,712,576 sectors (7.0+ gig)
>
> I have turned off the hardware compression and tried using
> TurboStore's
> ;COMPRESS=HIGH option, but get the same bad store. I have not tried a
> full uncompressed backup yet because of time/user restraints.
>
> Our setup is an HP3000-935 running MPE/iX 5.5 update 1, and a HPC1504B
>
> 90m DAT Drive.
>
> Thanks,
> Blake Schreckenbach
> [log in to unmask]

  Blake,
You may wish to try adding the parameter   ;files=40000 to the STORE
command line.
In early versions of MPE there were directory limitations of around
10000 file names in the STORE command, by adding the ;files= parameter
you could increase the directory block on tape.  I don't know if this is
still a problem in MPEIX STORE command, but we still use this parameter
on full backups.

Chris Hill