Richard, Yes, you might be right. I've started a SQL query to find out if the server still thinks the files are active.
Best regards, Alexander Richard Sims wrote: > Hmmm... I wonder if the Sending error might be the client having seen > the name in the active-files list it got from the server at the start > of the backup and, not having found the file in the client file system, > is trying to incite an Expire, but is having trouble communicating that > file name to the server (odd characters, etc.). Keep in mind that many > message-issuance routines expect normalcy in the strings they handle, > and neither look for nor deal with inadvertent non-displayable, binary > characters. That kind of thing can always throw off an investigation: > what you see is not the reality. > > Richard Sims, BU -- ----------------------------------------------- Alexander Verkooijen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Systems Programmer SARA High Performance Computing