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Date:	Tue, 28 Aug 2001 19:23:17 PDT
From:	Harry Chris Motin <hmotin@attglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Possibly ailing DDS-2 drive

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I'm curious. What backup programs to you use? Can you backup to
different media, using these programs, beside your tape drive. If so,
why don't you try installing a spare hard drive, if you've got one, and
backing up to that. Bypass the tape altogether before it fails on your
at the least opportune time (you know that it will!!). If you do not
have a spare HDD, perhaps some space somewhere on your existing
installed hard drive? Best to secure a reliable backup system as soon as
you can.

HCM
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"J. R. Fox" wrote:
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> I don't back up often enough. Last night, I tried several times
> to do so via my HP DDS-2 drive. There were various failures with
> different backup programs, on both the Warp and NT platforms. To
> be sure, I opened two fresh DAT cartridges, which both numbered
> among the CRC and other failures. The drive was not making the
> normal sounds that it makes, and backups would bomb out quite
> early in the process. On the previous round of tape backups I
> had done, a couple months ago, everything had proceeded normally
> without incident. This drive was purchased approx. 3 years ago,
> and has seen relatively light use -- far less than it would get
> in most office environments.
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> The nature of the failures, including some where the DAT
> cartridge bobbed up and down in the drive, as if mechanically
> seeking something and not finding it, led me to think in terms of
> a h/w problem of some sort. Several insertions of a cleaning
> cartridge had no effect. Today, I blew several shots of
> compressed air into the drive. Immediately after that, I
> successfully backed up two partitions totalling 800 meg., and
> restored a few files from an older tape, which had accidentally
> gotten deleted from my hard drive.
>
> Time will tell if this is an intermittent or lasting problem.
> But I'm wondering if anyone who has a lot more experience with
> DAT drives than I do finds this account to be familiar.
>
> Jordan
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