Hi! Am 15.05.20 um 13:33 schrieb Nathan Stratton Treadway: > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 10:59:49 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> I am gonna restore as well just to check if there are hidden write >> errors (doesn't look like that to me so far ...) > > > That reminded me that (at least on our Ubuntu Linux system) the > smartmontools package's "smartctl" let us read error statistics > information from the SCSI tape drive. I put > > smartctl -l error -H $TAPEDEV > > in the cron script which ran Amanda, and it would produce output like > this: >
I think this was not mentioned on this thread yet, but
there is also the HPE Library & Tape Tools utility ("ltt"),
which allows to test many aspects of a tape drive.
This software runs fine under Linux and can be used with tape
drives of other brands, too (not only HP drives).
I used it successfully on several occasions over the years,
with drive types from DDS2, DLT to LTO-6 and drive brands like
HP, Quantum or Tandberg.
The user interface of this tool is, well, "interesting", though... :-)
HTH
- andreas
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