My tape failures involved DDS3s (among others). After doing regular vstores
after EVERY full backup, we discovered tapes that were not readable on our
other systems. The original drive reported NO problems storeing or vstoreing
the tapes. While this happened only a couple times on our DDS3 drives, the
DDS2 (and ICK) DDS1's were notorious for that.

We then switched our procedures to STORE on one drive, and do VSTOREs on a
separate drive every time.

 -Chris B
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of Denys Beauchemin
> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 10:25 AM
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> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] DDS back online after :STORE
> 
> I have heard many stories like this over the years, but they almost always
> occurred with DDS-2 drives.  Did your misadventures include DDS-2 or DDS-
> 3?
> 

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