Mounted drive during backup

Hi Everyone,
This is sort of a combination question...
1. I did my initial backup overnight for 111GB. This morning, it was at 102GB and then seemed to complete at 104GB instead of going all the way to 111GB. Is this normal?
2. The mounted drive during backup that says "Backup of Courtney's iMac" (in my case) did not un-mount after the backup completed. Isn't it supposed to?
Thanks for your help, whoever you may be!
Courtney

This is what it does on several machines here...
3/31/08 12:46:11 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[805] Starting standard backup
3/31/08 12:46:12 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[805] Mounting disk image /Volumes/momsTM_backup/dadspowerbook000a95ceee66.sparsebundle
3/31/08 12:46:14 PM hdiejectd[815] running
3/31/08 12:46:16 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[805] Disk image mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of dadspowerbook
3/31/08 12:46:16 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[805] Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of dadspowerbook/Backups.backupdb
3/31/08 12:46:31 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[805] Backup requested due to disk attach
3/31/08 12:46:47 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[805] No pre-backup thinning needed: 203.1 MB requested (including padding), 204.78 GB available
3/31/08 12:48:31 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[805] Copied 756 files (85 KB) from volume dad's powerbook.
3/31/08 12:48:32 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[805] No pre-backup thinning needed: 203.0 MB requested (including padding), 204.78 GB available
3/31/08 12:49:22 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[805] Copied 431 files (0 bytes) from volume dad's powerbook.
3/31/08 12:49:36 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[805] Starting post-backup thinning
3/31/08 12:50:04 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[805] Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup of dadspowerbook/Backups.backupdb/dadspowerbook/2008-03-30-114907: 204.78 GB now available
3/31/08 12:50:04 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[805] Post-back up thinning complete: 1 expired backups removed
3/31/08 12:50:04 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[805] Backup completed successfully.
3/31/08 12:50:16 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder[143] StatusMonitor::volumesChangedCallBack returned -47
3/31/08 12:50:16 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[805] Ejected Time Machine disk image.
3/31/08 12:50:17 PM kernel AFP_VFS afpfs_unmount: /Volumes/momsTMbackup, flags 0, pid 828
TM finds its disk image, does it's thing then ejects the disk image
- gws

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rmt/0mn':
initPRD.ora
spfilePRD.ora
^GEnd of medium on "output".
To continue, type device/file name when ready.
The SAP system is on Solaris/Oracle running ECC6.0. LTO-4 tape drive is used for the backup. Tape_size in initSID.sap is set to 720000M. Current database size is 128Gb.
What is the reason for the backup failure?
Rdgs,
Lim

Hi,
This is my initSID.sap
@(#) $Id: //bas/640_REL/src/ccm/rsbr/initSUN.sap#4 $ SAP
backup mode [all | all_data | full | incr | sap_dir | ora_dir
| <tablespace_name> | <file_id> | <file_id1>-<file_id2>
| <generic_path> | (<object_list>)]
default: all
backup_mode = all
restore mode [all | all_data | full | incr | incr_only | incr_full
| <tablespace_name> | <file_id> | <file_id1>-<file_id2>
| <generic_path> | (<object_list>)]
redirection with '=' is not supported here - use option '-m' instead
default: all
restore_mode = all
backup type [offline | offline_force | offline_standby | offline_split
| offline_mirror | offline_stop | online | online_cons | online_split
| online_mirror
default: offline
backup_type = online
backup device type
[tape | tape_auto | tape_box | pipe | pipe_auto | pipe_box | disk
| disk_copy | disk_standby | stage | stage_copy | stage_standby
| util_file | util_file_online | rman_util | rman_disk | rman_stage
| rman_prep]
default: tape
backup_dev_type = tape
backup root directory [<path_name> | (<path_name_list>)]
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backup_root_dir = /oracle/PRD/sapbackup
stage root directory [<path_name> | (<path_name_list>)]
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stage_root_dir = /oracle/PRD/sapbackup
compression flag [yes | no | hardware | only]
default: no
compress = hardware
compress command
first $-character is replaced by the source file name
second $-character is replaced by the target file name
<target_file_name> = <source_file_name>.Z
for compress command the -c option must be set
recommended setting for brbackup -k only run:
"compress -b 12 -c $ > $"
no default
compress_cmd = "compress -b 12 -c $ > $"
uncompress command
first $-character is replaced by the source file name
second $-character is replaced by the target file name
<source_file_name> = <target_file_name>.Z
for uncompress command the -c option must be set
no default
uncompress_cmd = "uncompress -c $ > $"
directory for compression [<path_name> | (<path_name_list>)]
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compress_dir = /oracle/PRD/sapreorg
brarchive function [save | second_copy | double_save | save_delete
| second_copy_delete | double_save_delete | copy_save
| copy_delete_save | delete_saved | delete_copied]
default: save
archive_function = copy_delete_save
directory for archive log copies to disk
default: first value of the backup_root_dir parameter
archive_copy_dir = /oracle/PRD/sapbackup
directory for archive log copies to stage
default: first value of the stage_root_dir parameter
archive_stage_dir = /oracle/PRD/sapbackup
new sapdata home directory for disk_copy | disk_standby
no default
new_db_home = /oracle/C11
stage sapdata home directory for stage_copy | stage_standby
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stage_db_home = /oracle/C11
original sapdata home directory for split mirror disk backup
no default
orig_db_home = /oracle/C11
remote host name
no default
remote_host = <host_name>
remote user name
default: current operating system user
remote_user = <user_name>
tape copy command [cpio | cpio_gnu | dd | dd_gnu | rman | rman_dd]
default: cpio
tape_copy_cmd = dd
disk copy command [copy | dd | dd_gnu | rman]
default: copy
disk_copy_cmd = copy
stage copy command [rcp | ftp]
default: rcp
stage_copy_cmd = rcp
flags for cpio output command
default: -ovB
cpio_flags = -ovB
flags for cpio input command
default: -iuvB
cpio_in_flags = -iuvB
flags for cpio command for copy of directories to disk
default: -pdcu
cpio_disk_flags = -pdcu
flags for dd output command
default: "obs=16k"
recommended setting:
Unix: "obs=nk bs=nk", example: "obs=64k bs=64k"
NT: "bs=nk", example: "bs=64k"
dd_flags = "obs=64k bs=64k"
flags for dd input command
default: "ibs=16k"
recommended setting:
Unix: "ibs=nk bs=nk", example: "ibs=64k bs=64k"
NT: "bs=nk", example: "bs=64k"
dd_in_flags = "ibs=64k bs=64k"
copy_in_cmd = "dd ibs=64k obs=8k if=$"
rewind command
rewind = "mt -f $ rewind"
rewind and set offline command
rewind_offline = "mt -f $ offline"
tape positioning command
tape_pos_cmd = "mt -f $ fsf $"
recommended values for tape devices with hardware compression:
tape_size = 720000M
address of backup device without rewind
tape_address = /dev/rmt/0mn
address of backup device with rewind
tape_address_rew = /dev/rmt/0m
volumes for brarchive
volume_archive = (PRDA09, PRDA10)
volumes for brbackup
volume_backup = (PRDB09, PRDB10)
expiration period for backup volumes in days
expir_period = 5
recommended usages of backup volumes
tape_use_count = 260
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