[Veritas-bu] Question on LTO again...

Looks like doing an mt -f eom on a blank tape works.... weird....

        -- Cheers
        -- James

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Larry Kingery wrote:

> Oh, I meant that the use of DISALLOW_BACKUPS_SPANNING_MEDIA might
> cause this, not that you should use it (I've yet to see anyone do
> so).  
> 
> James Mello writes:
> > Our full backups will be larger than the media size of the tape drive. How
> > will we be able to do full backups?
> > 
> >     -- Cheers
> >     -- James
> > 
> > On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Larry Kingery wrote:
> > 
> > > Use of DISALLOW_BACKUPS_SPANNING_MEDIA on the media server,
> > > or a SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS greater than the difference between LEOT and
> > > PEOT come to mind.
> > > 
> > > James Mello writes:
> > > > 
> > > > I've got the st.conf that was put out on the list (which I will 
> > > > summarize
> > > > later), and the drive appears to be fine :) Unfortunately, we are ending
> > > > up with a write error rather than an EOM when the backup reaches the end
> > > > of media. Any ideas?
> > > > 
> > > > Hardware:
> > > > 
> > > > IBM LTO drive
> > > > 
> > > > st.conf entry:
> > > > 
> > > > tape-config-list=
> > > > "IBM ULTRIUM-TD1", "IBM Ultrium", "CLASS_3580",
> > > > "IBM ULT3580-TD1", "IBM 3580 Ultrium", "CLASS_3580";
> > > > CLASS_3580 = 1,0x24,0,0x45863d,2,0x00,0x01,0;
> > > > 
> > > > Software:
> > > > 
> > > > Netbackup 3.4GA
> > > > 
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> > > Larry Kingery 
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> > > 
> 
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> Larry Kingery 
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