I thought I had seen a hot fix for this on the veritas sight. Don't remember
for sure.
Secondly, I believe you do need overwrite protection set to something, or it
will go back to one of the first tapes. I had this problem, and set
overwrite protection to 1 day. It would then procede to the second tape.

CW

"Jon" wrote in message
news:3b73b784$1@hronntp01....
>
> I have an NT server with a Digital TZ885 (5 slot DLT autoloader) running
BENT
> 7.2 rev 1025. It backs up 80Gb of data spanning 3 DLT tapes on a daily
basis.
> Recently however, once it has finished the second tape, instead of
proceeding
> to the third tape it will try and overwrite one of the freshly written
ones.
> It sometimes starts the backup on tape 2 or 3 instead of tape 1. All
tapes
> are inventoried and the slots are "blue" before the backup starts. I've
tried
> re-labelling all 3 tapes to get rid of any overwrite protection but with
> no success.
> Any help most welcome..