Larry Simonsen wrote:
> our backups are such that they both write the tape and then do a vstore to 
> verify that the tape is readable.  in this mode when the backup finished 
> the close of the tape file does not do an eject so that the tape can be 
> placed on-line and verified.  last week we replaced a dds-3 drive.  since 
> this time the close of the backup ejects the tape and the backup stream 
> can not place the tape back on-line.  where is the configuration setting 
> so that the close of the backup does not eject the tape?

I usually have my DDS drives set to NOT eject and NO COMPRESS.
    !DEVCTRL.MPEXL.TELESUP  7, disable, disable

I suspect that on a reboot, thats all reset to YES EJECT.

So my backup jobs have the DEVCTRL to set things as I want them.
    !DEVCTRL.MPEXL.TELESUP  7, enable, disable    /* COMPRESS, NO EJECT */
    do STORE
    !DEVCTRL.MPEXL.TELESUP  7, disable, enable    /* NO COMPRESS, EJECT */
    do VSTORE
    !DEVCTRL.MPEXL.TELESUP  7, disable, disable   /* NO COMPRESS, NO EJECT */

When I come in to swap the tapes, if they are not ejected,
something may be wrong:  Job failed, or some step of backup
is still running.

Keven

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