RE: Ontape error: Not Enough space

[cutting] > How is it possible try to backup a database, if ontape insisted on > giving errors. > > Let me explain my problem with ontape. I tried to backup a database > which has over 100 GB. Everthing is okay with the first DLT I > inserted. > However, when it says "ok insert next tape sequence and press enter". > > Then insert next DLT tape. Pressing enter. Vow. Strange error > message's. > > i. Sometimes it gives I/O Error. From my experience I understand that > it usually gives this error to DLT IV tapes. > This is usually 'cos the TAPESIZE is set to what manufacturers say the tape will handle. But they occasionally lie and the tape is a couple of meters shorter. I normally set TAPESIZE to be 90% of claimed capacity [cutting] ********************************************************************** The contents of this e-mail are confidential to the ordinary user(S) of the mail address(es) to which it was sent and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of it, or any part of it, in any form whatsoever, and any actions taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. **********************************************************************