[Veritas-bu] How to determine if a tape should be discarded?

Our environment is HP-UX 11.11, Netbackup 5.1 MP3 backing up mostly HP Unix.

I’m cleaning up some frozen tapes and wondered what the group uses to determine if a tape should be discarded or unfrozen and put back into NetBackup. I ran a bpmedialist –summary report and grep’d out the FROZEN tapes. Then I looked at the /usr/openv/netbackup/db/media/errors log and matched up my frozen tapes with the errors in the log. The errors I have are either WRITE_ERROR, POSITION_ERROR, OPEN_ERROR or READ_ERROR. Does anyone automatically discard any tapes if they get any of these errors? How do I know if it was an actual tape error or one caused by the drive? I could unfreeze all the tapes, keep a closer eye on them and if it happens again get rid of the tape but I’m a little hesitant to do that right before the Holidays. Thanks in advance, any input on this is appreciated.

Wayne BeDour

IT Unix System Administrator

PH: 313-240-3374 FAX: 313-240-3065

Internet: wbedour AT lear DOT com

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