Unexplainable hanging job

[gerh]

Hello all,

We have a strange problem:

After about 4,09 GB of data backed up to a 20/40 GB DLT tape the message "Please remove media from drive" pops up and if we click OK, it asks for a scratch or overwritable tape.
I would expect that it finish the entire backup on one tape.
at least it did that until last tuesday. the log then stated:

9,914 Directories
266,058 Files
45,746,198,118 Total Bytes
5 Volumes
8:26:09 Elapsed time

Does anyone have a clue what causes this and how I can solve it, so I can backup to one tape again?

 

[NortonES2]

The log shows that you have 45Gb of data on the tape. Are your backup jobs appending to each other instead of overwriting?

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If it doesn't leak oil it must be empty!!

 

[gerh]

Indeed it seems that someone put the jobs on append instead of overwrite. I will try tonight and see if this was the problem.
Then I will try to find out who made that change and kick ass !!

TIA
Ger

 

[gerh]

The problem is indeed solved. I unfortunately cannot find who changed it.

Thanks for the help.

Ger