>during a Backup of our Archive Storage Pool (Tape), we got the following
>message:

>  ANR9999D ASRTRV(494): End reached prematurely on volume ...

>We have started an AUDIT VOL on that volume with FIX=YES. The AUDIT found
>one file on the tape and marked it as a damaged file. The message above
>appeared again at the end of the AUDIT process.

>Does anybody know, what that message means ??

This message indicates that the database information for a particular file
was not consistent with the actual file data on your storage pool volume.
Using metadata from the database, the backup operation tried to read a
certain number of bytes from a volume, but encountered end-of-volume
before that number of bytes had been read.  Audit Volume Fix=Yes should
eliminate this inconsistency by deleting the problem file from the database.

Dave Cannon
ADSM Development