Networker

Re: [Networker] Verifying data written

2006-10-31 11:22:09
Subject: Re: [Networker] Verifying data written
From: Howard Martin <howard.martin AT EDS DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:07:25 -0500
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:00:19 +0200, Dag Nygren <dag AT NEWTECH DOT FI> wrote:

>> I believe that drives with a tape mounted but not being written to when 
a
>> bus reset occurs will show an error with scanner along the lines of
>> expected file number X got file number X+N.
>
>Probably, but that is a recoverable error as Networker will try to reseek
>to end of data.
>
>Best
>Dag

But the media index is incorrect and any attempts to access the 
overwritten files will result in the savesets being marked suspect, until 
a scanner -i is done.

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