On Tuesday, December 9, 2003, at 05:27 PM, Richard Hellier wrote:

Happened to me and seems that NB doesn't clears the tapes used on the 
failed backup instantly, the system needs to be without doing anything 
to clear and delete the partial images. In just case if you know which 
tapes were used you can clear it manually and use them without a problem.

Best regards,
  Alfonso Correas


>  the backup of a (e.g.) 350 Gbyte partition
> fails for one reason or another, e.g. after having filled 4 tapes and
> begun the fifth.
>
>       To begin with, at least, N/B does exactly what it should and
> re-starts the backup (usually with the tape previously being used) and,
> in most cases, the second try works fine ...  
>       
>       ... BUT, the problem is that the four "partial" tapes are
> marked as FULL (in an "available_media" output) but do not appear
> in a "Media Written" report (or "bpimagelist" output (same thing?)).
> They seem to enter a "limbo" until they expire (even though they
> don't contain a complete image).