Hi all,
I got several tape errors recently.
Cleaning the drive doesn't seem to help.
Last errors are:
>Subject: Guns AMANDA [FAILURE] MAIL REPORT FOR May 24, 2002
>
>These dumps were to tape daily-003.
>*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: I/O error]].
>
>...
>
> taper: tape daily-003 kb 7808 fm 6 writing file: I/O error
>
>
>Subject: Guns AMANDA [FAILURE] MAIL REPORT FOR May 26, 2002
>
>These dumps were to tape daily-004.
>*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: I/O error]].
>
>...
>
> taper: tape daily-004 kb 6016 fm 5 writing file: I/O error
>
>
>Subject: Guns AMANDA [FAILURE] MAIL REPORT FOR May 31, 2002
>
>These dumps were to tape daily-001.
>*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing filemark: I/O error]].
>
>...
>
> taper: tape daily-001 kb 1888 fm 2 writing filemark: I/O error
How can I tell if it's a problem with the configuration, with the
tape or with the drive?
Tape daily001 worked fine on May, 21st.
taper: tape daily-001 kb 610272 fm 12 [OK]
Tape daily004 worked fine on May, 17th.
taper: tape daily-004 kb 2018720 fm 12 [OK]
Tape daily003 worked fine on May, 16th.
taper: tape daily-003 kb 667072 fm 12 [OK]
Configuration for daily tapes is:
>tapetype DLTTypeIII-10 # what kind of tape it is (see
>tapetypes below)
>
>...
>
>define tapetype DLTTypeIII-10 {
> comment "The 10/20 tapes we are using here"
> length 10000 mbytes # 10 GB tapes
> filemark 8 kbytes # A guy on the list uses 8 kb here.
> speed 5120 kbytes # 5 MB/s
>}
Is my filemark setting incorrect? Could the speed be wrong?
Any hint?
(we do both daily and weekly backups, weeklies on wednesdays).
Paul
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