With the recent thread of HP3000 success stories I
     decided to share one that I had today.  I walked in
     this morning and noticed across the console of our
     959/400 "*RECOVERY FROM POWERFAIL*".  I'm thinking
     "Darn! I'll have to restart the full backup all over
     again".  We are using BACKUP/3000 from Orbit Software
     so fortunately I could restart the backup and just let
     it run on-line.  Well I checked the $STDLIST and it was
     waiting for me mount the next volume.  On a whim I did
     mount the next volume and the backup continued on!
     Granted the power was out only for a couple of minutes
     and the backup was waiting for the next volume when the
     power died but it was still very nice to have the
     backup pick up where it left off.

     While I can not be sure, I believe the 959/400 with
     it's internal UPS would have kept the backup going even
     though the tape drive was active (which was not our
     case last night).  I would also think that our 957
     would have kept the backup running with it's internal
     battery if the tape drive was idle (I almost wish I
     could have tested that last night).

     It is great to have such good products as HP to keep
     the backups up and running.

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