I have: Dell 2300, NT 4.0, SQL 7.0 sp 1, SEAGATE STD224000N(Reported as a Archive Python by NT) drive, SCSI setup all terminated correctly, brand new SONY DAT DDS3 tapes using the SQL Agent Scheduler to Dump as a back up. Backing up over 30 DB job runs for 5 hours. My jobs will intermintly succeed but moslty fail, like 4 nights in a row, then a good one, then a string of bad ones. Any ideas? Thanks