We are making daily backups on our Alphaservers 1000 and 2100, OSF 3.2,
TLZ07, with a crontab procedure that uses :
/sbin/vdump -0 -u -f /dev/nrmt0h /dir
With 120m tapes, I got about 8Gb capacity as expected. This ran for
several months without problems. One day the capacity dropped very close
to 4Gb (no more compression ?). After the drive was replaced, it went back
up to 8Gb. One month later both servers dropped to 4Gb. Replacing the
drives made no difference this time. What else could be wrong ? (There are
no entries about the tape in the errorlog).
Paul Casteels casteels_at_uia.ac.be Tel: +32.3.8202455
Fax: +32.3.8202245
University of Antwerp Dpt.Physics
Universiteitsplein 1
B-2610 Wilrijk
Belgium
Received on Thu Oct 24 1996 - 11:55:36 NZDT