Also validate the tapes by doing a VSTORE.  Type HELP VSTORE for the options.

VSTORE - (options not shown)

     Verifies that the data on a backup media are valid (for example,
     there are no media errors), and reports errors incurred by STORE
     when writing the tape.


HP does not do a read after write on a backup and the only way to tell is when you do a restore and I would hate to find out that the tapes are no good.  I will also go with the suggestion of the two backups.  If you have to do a reload and would validate the full backup.  If you only have to restore the volume sets then validate that one.  If you have the time do both, although this time consuming and I do not know how much time you have 
on your hands.

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If the drive is just going bad and you have mirroring you can just replace the drive and remirror it.

If you do not have mirrored drives and the drive is still good you can purchase a clone utility that comes with Defrag by Lund and save hours of time.

Additional De-Frag/X features
CLONEDISK. This command copies every byte of data from the source drive to the destination drive. It can be used to take immediate, online action against the loss of valuable data that may be located on a failing drive
CLONEDISK - allows you to perform a bit by bit copy of a failing disc drive to another disc drive of the same or greater size. 

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Good Luck,
Joe T.
HP Technical Analyst



>>> Dennis Heidner <[log in to unmask]> 01/25/00 06:47PM >>>
There are a lot of variables.  What model?  An older 980?  Which drive?
Are you using private volumes?

Ldev1 for a 960/980 can not exceed 2GB.  LDev 1 for newer machines can
be upto 4GB (any space above that is currently unused).

If all the drives are members of the "MPEXL_SYSTEM_VOLUME_SET" plan on
several full backups and a reload...

If the LDEV is a member of a private volume,  full backup the system,
then do another backup of just the accounts on that volume set (always
specify the ;DIRECTORY;ONVS= options),  then purge the volume set,
change in the new drive and restore from the second backup.

I always perform a full backup and a second backup of the
machine/volumeset in question --- just incase I have a media problem
with one backup set...  and it has happened.

On the restore remember to specify ;olddate;keep;create=creator

Restores will take somewhat longer than the actual store. So allow for
the extra time.

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