On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:32:00 +0100 Mark <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote: > that the DAT72 drive in our server has > been stuck in a mechanism loop and failed to backup. DAT tapes are write only backups. They are winding /dev/null devices. Get a DLT drive. -- tsch|_, Jochen Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/