David,

    Backup window times apply not only to new backups, but also to tape 
mount requests for ongoing backups. Looks like that is what happened in 
your case.
Hope they fix that soon.


Prasad.



Macauley, David wrote:

> The backup job below shows a 196 failure, now maybe I'm being dense, 
> but I thought the window closing only effected backups that had not 
> started by the time the window closed.  This backup was running, and 
> had written a substantial amount of data....  So why did it fail??
>
> -Puzzled
>
>
> <<...OLE_Obj...>>
>
>
>
> 1/4/2002 12:06:02 AM - connecting
> 1/4/2002 12:06:02 AM - connected; connect time: 000:00:00
> 1/4/2002 12:08:01 AM - mounting 100269
> 1/4/2002 12:08:01 AM - mounted; mount time: 000:00:00
> 1/4/2002 12:08:01 AM - positioning to file 3
> 1/4/2002 12:08:48 AM - positioned; position time: 000:00:47
> 1/4/2002 12:08:48 AM - begin writing
> 1/4/2002 1:35:22 AM - positioning to file 4
> 1/4/2002 1:35:22 AM - positioned; position time: 000:00:00
> 1/4/2002 1:44:52 AM - mounting 100373
> 1/4/2002 1:46:40 AM - mounted; mount time: 000:01:48
> 1/4/2002 1:46:40 AM - positioning to file 1
> 1/4/2002 1:46:49 AM - positioned; position time: 000:00:09
> 1/4/2002 2:36:57 AM - positioning to file 2
> 1/4/2002 2:36:57 AM - positioned; position time: 000:00:00
> 1/4/2002 3:57:25 AM - positioning to file 3
> 1/4/2002 3:57:25 AM - positioned; position time: 000:00:00
> 1/4/2002 5:37:01 AM - positioning to file 4
> 1/4/2002 5:37:01 AM - positioned; position time: 000:00:00
> 1/4/2002 5:51:47 AM - mounting 100341
> 1/4/2002 5:53:29 AM - mounted; mount time: 000:01:42
> 1/4/2002 5:53:29 AM - positioning to file 1
> 1/4/2002 5:53:38 AM - positioned; position time: 000:00:09
> 1/4/2002 6:43:52 AM - positioning to file 2
> 1/4/2002 6:43:52 AM - positioned; position time: 000:00:00
> 1/4/2002 7:18:17 AM - positioning to file 3
> 1/4/2002 7:18:17 AM - positioned; position time: 000:00:00
> 1/4/2002 7:18:41 AM - positioning to file 4
> 1/4/2002 7:18:41 AM - positioned; position time: 000:00:00
> 1/4/2002 8:14:46 AM - end writing; write time: 008:05:58
> client backup was not attempted because backup window closed(196)
>