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Does anyone have some experiences of the CA-ARCHIVER software?

We have run into problems with it concerning file transferring
from reel tapes to 8mm Exabyte tapes. We have a VAX 6000-510
running VMS 5.5-1, a HSC50 (microcode 4.1) and an Exabyte station
SI8500G (2 * 5GB) from Systems Industries. We use the Exabytes
for daily backup, so the problem shouldn't be there. The version 
of CA-ARCHIVER is 4.0. 

I first tried an "ARCTAPECOMPRESS", it would have done (according
to the manual) exactly what I needed but the run failed. I called
CA-Finland and they told me that ARCTAPECOMPRESS will disappear
from this piece of software because it hasn't been as reliable as
it should have. Well, they told me to do a 
"ARCHIVE/REWRITE/PRIM=PATnnn/SEC=SATnnn/GENERATE=ALL" and then
"ARCSERVICE/REWRITE/SETUP=PRESORT". When I started the service
run for "ARCSERVICE/REWRITE" I managed to transfer some data to
the 8mm tape but I soon noticed that the HSC console started to
complain about "timeout errors" etc. After a while this run requested
another 8mm tape (and it was still the first reel tape I transferred 
from!).

I interrupted the job and found out that I couldn't mount an ordinary
volume after that! I had to reset the Exabyte station to be able to
mount a tape again.

Unfortunately CA-Finland has very little knowledge of Exabytes, so
I hope someone out there could give me a hint or two... Thanks!


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   Johan "BUC" Boholm                  e-mail: buc@abo.fi
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   Abo Akademi University,             FINLAND