We had a similar problem.
In our case, it turned out to be the power supply on our 3000 was going
bad. Our tape drive thought that there had been a power failure and
started over again and again etc.

Bob Hankey
Keystone Area Education Agency


>
> Attached is part of the stdlist of my backup last night, width edited
> slightly.  As far as I can tell, files up to a certain point
> (macord36.macsdata.sgaii) were backed up, then the tape began backing up
> from the beginning again.  Once again, it went up to a certain point
> (this time unposttt1.pub.sys) then decided to begin again!
>
> The problem is that Turbostore asked for a second tape to be mounted.
> Of course, nobody is here at five in the morning, so the job just
> sat there and none of the other programs batched after the tape backup
> ran this morning.
>
> Any ideas on why this happened?
>
> Thanks in advance for all suggestions!
>
> Rob Wu
>
> :FILE BACKUP;DEV=7
>  :STORE ^BAK0618.USERSTR2;*BACKUP;COMPRESS=HIGH;DIRECTORY;SHOW
>
>           >> TURBO STORE/RESTORE  VERSION  C.50.00  HP36387A <<
>                     (C) 1986 HEWLETT PACKARD CO.
> WED, JAN  8, 1997,  3:01 AM
>
> MPEXL_SYSTEM_VOLUME_SET          VOLUMESET MPE DIRECTORY ACCOUNTING FILE
> DISC   256            32     1    0         71   16268815
> /_HFSACCT/_HFSGRP/HFSMAP
> DISC    64 HFSDIR     32     1    0          0   67107839 /bin/
> DISC    32 HFSDIR     32     1    0          0   67107839 /dev/
> DISC    32 HFSDIR     32     1    0          0   67107839 /etc/
>
> < lots of lines snipped >
>
> DISC  4336 PRIV     2560     1   17        433        433 /SGA/MACS/MCORD31
> DISC 60704 PRIV     1536     1   32      10117      10117 /SGA/MACS/MCORD32
> DISC  2784 PRIV     2560     1   11        278        278 /SGA/MACS/MCORD33
> DISC   784 PRIV     2560     1    4         77         77 /SGA/MACS/MCORD34
> DISC  7568 PRIV     1536     1   32       1260       1260 /SGA/MACS/MCORD35
> DISC  3856 PRIV     2560     1   16        384        384 /SGA/MACS/MCORD36
> MPEXL_SYSTEM_VOLUME_SET          VOLUMESET MPE DIRECTORY ACCOUNTING FILE
> DISC   256            32     1    0         71   16268815
> /_HFSACCT/_HFSGRP/HFSMAP
> DISC    64 HFSDIR     32     1    0          0   67107839 /bin/
> DISC    32 HFSDIR     32     1    0          0   67107839 /dev/
> DISC    32 HFSDIR     32     1    0          0   67107839 /etc/
>
> < lots of lines snipped >
>
> DISC    16 SD         14    35    2          3          3 /SGA/PUB/TRN2PUT
> DISC  1840            88    32    4       5341       5341 /SGA/PUB/TRNHBU
> DISC 17360            10    37   27      40392      40392 /SGA/PUB/TRNMOBU
> DISC    16            80     3    1         14         14 /SGA/PUB/UNN
> DISC  4656            02    40    2      11674      11674 /SGA/PUB/UNPOSTF1
> DISC   624            12    16    2       1402       1402 /SGA/PUB/UNPOSTT1
> MPEXL_SYSTEM_VOLUME_SET          VOLUMESET MPE DIRECTORY ACCOUNTING FILE
> DISC   256            32     1    0         71   16268815
> /_HFSACCT/_HFSGRP/HFSMAP
> DISC    64 HFSDIR     32     1    0          0   67107839 /bin/
> DISC    32 HFSDIR     32     1    0          0   67107839 /dev/
> DISC    32 HFSDIR     32     1    0          0   67107839 /etc/

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