[Info-vax] Backup problems

[sapienzaf]

On Apr 3, 2:04 pm, totheedgeoft... at msn.com wrote:
> Hello
> I was wondering if there is anyway to recover/restart from a backup
> failure. I'm trying to backup
> data on a Seagate 73gb on a 3100-90 using a DLT-4000. The backup has
> failed twice due to
> the dlt has stop responding and all the lights start blinking. Since
> this backup will take multi
> volumes is there anyway to tell backup to start at file x volume x and
> continue.
> tks
> ed

Beside the obvious hardware problem that has already been pointed out,
the answer to your question is no.  You cannot get Backup to resume
from some random point of a backup operation that failed.  In
addition, the integrity of the backup completed to that point is
suspect.

Fix the tape drive.