How would you describe the feed rate to your drive?  If there are buffering
or congestion issues and your backups are shoe shining, you can expect
significant failure rates after a couple of years or repetitive use.

Our weekly database log recycles using native backup utilities were
beginning to die between two and three years but the start/stop on the
drives was very high.  However my incremental backups from my NetWorker
Solaris server were yielding much better results.  I since migrated to LTO
so never saw failures with my daily pool.

David

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