> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kelly J. Lipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 10:32 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Tape Reliability Recommendations
>
> As for reliability. That turns out to be a very mixed bag.
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> For instance,
> we have a site with a large fiber channel and LTO
> configuration. No end to
> the problems so far and they are very serious problems. Is
> this a result of
> the tape technology? I doubt it, but one never knows, do one?\
I would be very curious to hear what type of reliability problems you have seen with
LTO. I have posted here before, but we have been experiencing an incredibly high
number of read errors with our 3584 LTO library. We regularly see errors when trying
to restore data from tapes. We have been auditing volumes recently and have seen
errors on a tape during one audit, and then audit again, with no errors. There is no
discernable pattern to these errors (across multiple tapes and multiple drives). Due
to the nature of the data we are backing up, the data does not change often (and
therefore the tapes are generally written to once, and the data stays there), so
over-used tapes should not be an issue.
Anything that you could share with the list, or me directly, would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks.
Peter
Peter Ford
System Engineer
Stentor, Inc.
5000 Marina Blvd,
Brisbane, CA 94005-1811
Main Phone: 650-228-5555
Fax: 650 228-5566
http://www.stentor.com
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