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- From: BUC@FINABO.ABO.FI (Johan Boholm, DC)
- Subject: Problems with CA-ARCHIVER 4.0 and Exabytes
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.191733.15858@abo.fi>
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- Organization: Abo Akademi University, Finland
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 19:17:33 GMT
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- Does anyone have some experiences of the CA-ARCHIVER software?
-
- We have run into problems with it concerning file transferring
- from reel tapes to 8mm Exabyte tapes. We have a VAX 6000-510
- running VMS 5.5-1, a HSC50 (microcode 4.1) and an Exabyte station
- SI8500G (2 * 5GB) from Systems Industries. We use the Exabytes
- for daily backup, so the problem shouldn't be there. The version
- of CA-ARCHIVER is 4.0.
-
- I first tried an "ARCTAPECOMPRESS", it would have done (according
- to the manual) exactly what I needed but the run failed. I called
- CA-Finland and they told me that ARCTAPECOMPRESS will disappear
- from this piece of software because it hasn't been as reliable as
- it should have. Well, they told me to do a
- "ARCHIVE/REWRITE/PRIM=PATnnn/SEC=SATnnn/GENERATE=ALL" and then
- "ARCSERVICE/REWRITE/SETUP=PRESORT". When I started the service
- run for "ARCSERVICE/REWRITE" I managed to transfer some data to
- the 8mm tape but I soon noticed that the HSC console started to
- complain about "timeout errors" etc. After a while this run requested
- another 8mm tape (and it was still the first reel tape I transferred
- from!).
-
- I interrupted the job and found out that I couldn't mount an ordinary
- volume after that! I had to reset the Exabyte station to be able to
- mount a tape again.
-
- Unfortunately CA-Finland has very little knowledge of Exabytes, so
- I hope someone out there could give me a hint or two... Thanks!
-
-
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- Johan "BUC" Boholm e-mail: buc@abo.fi
- Computing Centre Phone: 358 + 21-654 379 (work)
- Abo Akademi University, FINLAND
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