Frozen means that no further writes will go to the tape.  It's still
readable (unless the mechanism is trashed).  

First check if there's images on it: "bpimmedia -mediaid <tapenum>".  No
images?  No worries.

If there's images on the tape and if you're worried about the quality of the
tape in case of restores, duplicate the tape to another.  Look at the
"bpduplicate" command with the "-id <tapenum>" option.  Use the
"-set_primary 1" so that the new copy is your primary copy for restores.  If
the duplicate runs OK, then you'll be fine.

-M

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of kumar appan
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 11:48 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] media write error


Hi,

  We got the error as media write failed while backing up the client m/c
.Looking at the the medialist summary , that media state is frozen .Is
there anyway to recover the data from that media and can be useable
.Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Regards
Kumar

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