In your support session with HP did you check to see if the tape drives 
themselves were the source of the problem?  In my experience tapes being 
prematurely marked full are usually because the drive is getting worn out and 
throwing too many errors.

Dave Werth
Garmin AT, Inc.
Salem, Oregon

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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On 
Behalf Of Eric Horn
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 12:52 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Tapes Marked Full Prematurely when Cloning

I'm on version 8.0.1.4 of NW and the server os is CentOS 5.2 (32).

We have an HP MSL4048 Jukebox with 2 drives.   Up until earlier this year the 
backups fit two tapes and then they were cloned and life was good.    Since we 
have gone to 3 tapes, we are having more and more clone failures due to "tape 
marked full prematurely".   I've gone down the support road with HP and did all 
the firmware updates, tried new tapes, etc. to no avail.   I've opened up a 
couple of tickets with EMC over the past few months (one is still open) and no 
solution yet.

Here's the odd part (to me), I do a backup on friday and when the friday clone 
fails, I can take those friday clone tapes and label them for monday as the 
backup tapes and they hold the full amount.    Has anyone experienced anything 
like this?

Thanks,

Eric


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