Dwight,

There is a script that runs every day to perform a backup of the database
and then about an hour later delete the old one. The volume in question is
not the one listed in q volhist t=dbb. Both tapes are there when I q libvol.
It's been there about a week now. The failure occurred after it had written
about 1/4th the database. It reported the failure and did not try to use
another tape but left that one as is.

Geoff Gill
NT Systems Support Engineer
Computer Systems Group
E-Mail:   gillg AT saic DOT com
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 -----Original Message-----
From:   Cook, Dwight E [mailto:cookde AT BP DOT COM]
Sent:   Wednesday, July 05, 2000 11:45 AM
To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject:        Re: DB Backup failure

Have you made another dbbackup yet ?
sounds like not, maybe...
if you perform a "q volhist t=dbb" do you see your volume in question ?
        if so you remove those with the "del volhist t=dbb tod=xxx" but you
can't delete your only dbbackup
if it failed you shouldn't really even see it listed as a dbbackup...?

my thoughts with the info supplied...

Dwight