[Info-vax] Delete a file from a tape?

[Christoph Gartmann]

Hello,

I have a tape with a few files (backup savesets). The last file on tape is
an incomplete saveset. Thus, I would like to delete this last file from the
tape. But OpenVMS 7.3-2 lists the file, asks for confirmation to delete and
finally refuses to do so. My next attempt was to recreate the saveset in
question via BACKUP with /REPLACE. Here I got:

%BACKUP-F-POSITERR, error positioning MKB200:[000000]13OCT09MAC358.BCK;
-SYSTEM-F-OPINCOMPL, operation is incomplete

Thus, how do I get rid of the incomplete saveset on tape without loosing
the previous savesets? Do I need to copy the contents of the tape to disk,
delete the incomplete file, initialize the tape and copy back the rest?

Regards,
   Christoph Gartmann

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