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Subject: re: BACKUP-F-CONTINUED problems...
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Date: Wed, 18-Feb-87 21:35:04 EST
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Was the tape reused?  I found out after a dance with the TSC that just
doing a /norewind is likely to go past the end of the tape and into the
next save set, which 6 months ago might have spanned volumes.  The solution?
Dismount/nounload, Mount/for....  Then backup properly finds the end of the
save sets that you put on the tape THIS time, because it runs into the
end of tape mark it just wrote a while back.
 
Yes, this is a horribly hairy kludge, but it let me do backups without
having my tape librarian degauss the tapes every night.