On 27 Jan 2004 07:03:25 -0800, (Arthur Begun)
wrote:

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So to make it absolutely clear, the incident happened afew days ago.
I have a tape on my desk full of data that is inaccessible because
somehow the header was destroyed because software froze while
appending a backup. I consider it a major flaw. I've been doing
backups on tape for almost 2 decades and have never seen a header
destroyed by an appended backup.

Why, *exactly* did you reset the system while the tape drive was
writing something?

Malc.