How much disc space are you backing up? Do you mean you are doing a parallel
backup to the two devices and using two tapes and the system is asking now
for another tape? Without knowing the disc space and assuming this question
is because you have 10G backup space which is more than your disc space, I
would look at compression. Make sure it is set on. I have not seen this
problem on HP-3000 but on our 1st HP-9000, when we did a backup on it, it
took twice as many tapes as needed. Something about start/stop gaps and
empty inodes and a few other things too long ago to remember.

James

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Subject: Help with backup problem


Dear Readers, we have a H-P 3000/957 with a 2g dat drive c2477sz and an 8g
dat drive c2466r. We are now going into our third tape on a once a week
backup even though we have spread the files across the two drives.  Should
we buy  a larger drive(which one) or add a third to our cabinet?  Any
information will be appreciated very much.

Thanks,

Jean Turner
Supervisor of MainFrame Hardware
Jacksonville University
Jacksonville, FL
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