After a tape is flagged full due to error you will usually find suspect
savesets on the tape volume.
One can query them with (in unix shell speak)
Mminfo \
-s $NSR_SERVER \
-q'!ssrecycle,suspect' \
-r'volume,pool,client,level,savetime,ssflags,clflags'
I have developed the habit of at least copying all savesets flaged
suspect on normal backup pools to verify that the data is at least
readable, I have been bitten a few times by suspect savesets that were
not set to aborted or incomplete but were still not readable (version
5.5 and version 6.0.1 if I remember well).
maarten
-----Original Message-----
From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU]
On Behalf Of Nico De Ranter
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 1:42 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Not all tapes are fully used
On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 08:48 +0100, Wood, R A (Bob) wrote:
> Nico,
>
> Networker will flag a tape as full if it has a write error on that
tape.
> It doesn't matter what caused the write error (physically reached end
of
> tape, dirty drive, lumpy power supply, SCSI resets, etc.) Networker's
> response is to mark the tape as Full and move on.
That's what I was afraid of. However somehow I would have expected
Networker to flag the tape as bad in stead of just moving on to the next
tape. I've got 1 tape device which sometimes writes at a very low speed,
I'm keeping an eye on it. Of course since the moment I decided to keep
an eye on that drive it works perfectly at full speed. It knows, I'm
sure it knows...
Thanks
Nico
> As you're getting quite a few of these you may wish to try a bit of
> investigating yourself (were the tapes written on the same drive? Are
> there any messages in the system log that correspond to the time that
> the tapes were marked full? If connected via fabric, any messages on
the
> switch?)sort of thing. Try to find out if it is tape drive, connection
> or media related.
>
> Whether you crack it or not, you'll know a little more about your
setup
> than when you started (and that's no bad thing) :)
>
> Regards
> Bob
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Legato NetWorker discussion
> >[mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Nico De Ranter
> >Sent: 16 August 2006 08:27
> >To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> >Subject: [Networker] Not all tapes are fully used
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm using LTO-1 tapes that can hold up to 105GB. I just
> >noticed that many of my tapes that are labeled 'full' in the
> >volumes overview are only partially used e.g. only about 80GB
> >or in some cases even 18GB is used but the tape is labeled as
> >'full' anyway. Is does normal or does it look like I have a
> >problem with one of my tape devices?
> >
> >Nico
> >
> >--
> >Nico De Ranter
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> >Sony Service Center (NSCE)
> >The Corporate Village, Da Vincilaan 7-D1
> >B-1935 Zaventem, Belgium
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