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>Jerry/Steve, > >Has it been primarily on the 06 UTC runs? > >I just checked and all of my machines starting with f5 and the >others that pull the 1 deg gfs from f5 are short on many of >the 06 UTC GFS files, as yours are. > >That run is coming in around the same time that the backup software >runs on f5, maybe that is the culprit? I'm going to change the time >of the backup run to try to better fit between gfs runs and see if that >helps tonight. > >Also, did you lose data on the weekend (060730/31) when my backup job >didn't run? If not, that is almost certainly the problem. > >Pete Pete... I have data on disk going back to 18Z on July 28th. The only run that has missing data is the 06Z run today. Kevin W. Thomas Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms University of Oklahoma Norman, Oklahoma Email: address@hidden