This is definitely a cleaning issue...and if you move a lot of tapes thru
your drives, even with regular cleaning you may have to replace the drives
from time to time.
This happens periodically with my jukeboxes, and I have the operators do an
extra cleaning and then relabel the affected tapes. Usually that clears it
up; if it doesn't I have the drive replaced. I have networker manage the
cleaning schedule - once every two weeks for low-use drives, once a week for
high-use (high use=writing all day as well as all night)
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From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU]
On
Behalf Of Brian O'Neill
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 6:31 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Tapes getting marked as "full" when not used?
I've had a strange occurance the past two nights.
Networker 7.1.2 running on RedHat AS2.1, with a SAN-connected PowerVault
132T with two SDLT320 drives. Two Windows Servers as Dedicated Storage
Nodes and Dynamic Drive Sharing.
The past two nights, I've gotten the following message from one of the
storage nodes:
Mar 23 03:33:54 cranes logger: NetWorker media: (warning)
rd=winnode2:\\.\Tape1 opening: Warning: tape drive \\.\Tape1 requires
cleaning
Mar 23 03:34:34 cranes last message repeated 2 times
Mar 23 03:34:34 cranes last message repeated 2 times
Mar 23 03:34:34 cranes logger: NetWorker media: (info) write open error:
The device has indicated that cleaning is required before further
operations are attempted.
It then seems to go through every tape available and marks them all
"full" after mounting them. If I manually set them back to "appendable",
the backups continue without issue or errors.
The PowerVault is supposed to be managing its own cleaning...should I
change that to let Networker do it?
-Brian
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