I guess I'll answer my own question. The problem was accompanied by error
206 (drive reported a failure: dirty heads, bad media, etc). So it must be
that when Retrospect thinks a tape or disk is bad, it stops the backup and
waits for another media.
Phil Geller
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on 8/22/00 8:54 AM, Phil Geller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In the last couple of days I've seen two installation where backups fail
> because Retrospect wants another media. Even though the tape or disk
> weren't full, the Summary window for the Backup Set said "Appending requires
> another member". In one case we were backing up to Onstream ADR tapes. The
> tape only had about 3.5GB on it, and it holds about 15 GB. The other was a
> Orb Disk using Retrospect Express. It also was _way_ below capacity. In at
> least one case I know the media wasn't marked missing. I'm not sure about
> the second case.
>
> Any ideas what's happening?
>
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