Jim,

     We have seen the same issues in our sites.  It is believed to be a
     problem with VSTORE possibly being less forgiving than STORE/RESTORE
     with the ability to recover the data but I am not sure.  At any rate,
     I would suggest that you express this concern to HP as a reliable
     verification tool is needed.

     Regards,
     Carl Sitherwood
     HP - Atlanta


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Subject: Re: Tape libraries and Disaster Recovery
Author:  Non-HP-James.Lhrl.Trudeau ([log in to unmask]) at
HP-USA,mimegw1
Date:    3/24/98 9:24 AM


        Greg Stiegers wrote:
        <snip snip>
> I am surprised no one mentioned verifying the tapes... Again, comments
> and suggestions welcome.
>

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Yep, we do a VSTORE after each backup.  We get errors about
 <= 20 % of the time.  I've on numerous occasions taken the tape
 in question and restored the problem file(s)......no problem.  Went
 round & round with HPRC, and replaced the transports/electronics
 a coupla times.  We clean the drives each Monday morning and
 (generally) use them only once a day Monday thru Saturday for
 backups.  They are DDSII drives and we use only one tape each
 for the backups, giving 6 uses between cleaning.  Our HP CE
 says "clean 'em more often".  I say "hogwash".  Of course I
could be wrong....anyone else see this problem?

Drives are C1530B, OS is 5.0 PP 3, tapes are 90m HP Media
Recognition System and are almost 2 years old.  That means
each tape has been used ummm...about 20 times.  I don't think
its an age problem, as we've had these oddball messages since
the tapes and drives were new.

Back to the chase,
Jim Trudeau