My tapes get marked prematurely full whenever I abort a savegrp - using 7.3.2 

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From: EMC NetWorker discussion on behalf of Randy Manchester
Sent: Wed 12/6/2006 6:40 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] permaturely gets full



I just went through pretty much the same problem.

I have a StorageTek L700e with LTO1 and LTO3 SCSI drives and Sun v880
and had tapes getting marked full with anywhere from a few hundred
kbytes to a few gigabytes on them. Had the StorageTek FE try replacing
the LTO drive and the cabling, which didn't help. In trouble shooting
it, I tried shutting down networker and doing a tar directly to the tape
device and it was showing a problem too, basically reporting that it had
reached the end of media prematurely. The tape drive that was having the
problem was daisy chained with the library and I found that eliminating
the daisy chain by putting the library on it's own SCSI channel
eliminated the problem. I discovered this by disconnecting the SCSI
cable from the LTO drive and putting a terminator on it, then doing a
tar to the tape device, and the problem went away.

Cheers,
Randy

Mokong Ako wrote:
> Hi fellow networkers,
>
> We are having a problem with our setup, we are using Networker 7.2.1 build
> 311 and L20 device.  All seems ok with the routine backup,  but when we
> started doing cloning, most of the clone pools prematurely gets full. We
> are using LT03 tapes and some fills only upto 25 GB. Is there a setting
> somewhere that i might have missed ?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
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