I watch my logs and the "errors" file to promptly see what happened when
NetBackup "sees" a tape error. On all errors, if NetBackup didn't
freeze the tape, I do! Notes are written to a "blog". Even if a
problem appears to be a drive, the tape is set to frozen (if assigned)
or directly changed to another pool (see below).
Periodically, I look at the "Media Summary" report (verbose). If there
are expired, frozen tapes reported, I expire them with bpexpdate and
change them to a pool for just such tapes (I call it the Baudelaire
volume pool).
When my tape drives have time, I do a short erase and then long erase.
If both go OK, the tape gets put back into service. With a pattern of
problems, the tape is returned to our media vendor.
However, we have more trouble with our LTO-I drives than media.
Is this the sort of thing that interests you?
cheers, wayne
Clooney, David wrote, in part, on 7/25/2006 10:52 AM:
> Just a quick one, have a whole bunch of frozen tapes, now I'm pretty
> convinced that most of them are indeed fine , whats the best way to
> confirm this ?
> Was thinking of bypassing Netbackup and using cpio to confirm the
> above, what methods does everyone else use ?
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