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From: morley@hrdwre.Cambridge.NCR.COM (Debbie Morley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: HP workstation backups
Keywords: HP, backups, autochanger
Message-ID: <200@hrdwre.Cambridge.NCR.COM>
Date: 21 Oct 88 12:58:23 GMT
Organization: NCR Corporation, E&M Cambridge, Ohio
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We are using an HP 35401A 1/4" Cartridge Tape Autochanger to backup four HP
series 9000/350SRX workstations over a LAN at night via crontab entries.  The
four HPs are daisy-chained on ThinLAN, with the Autochanger directly connected
to one of the workstations.

Periodically, with no observable patterns, one of the HPs fail to backup.  The
error message that is logged is "errno 5, can't write output tape".  We have
checked the crontab entries, there does not appear to be a problem with the
tapes (we have tested several scenarios), and there appears to be enough 
memory (250K LAN memory). 

Has anyone experienced similar problems with backups?  Any sugggestions would
be appreciated. 
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