: Peter Ford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, 18 February, 2003 19:43
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Subject: Re: Tape Reliability Recommendations
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From: Kelly J. Lipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 10:32 AM
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From: Peter Ford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
As for reliability. That turns out to be a very mixed bag.
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For instance,
we have a site with a large fiber channel and LTO
configuration. No end to
the problems so far and they are very serious problems. Is
. Lipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 1:32 PM
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I have done a significant amount of testing and have quite a lot of
practical experience with what I will refer to as the Big Three
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From: Kelly J. Lipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 10:32 AM
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Subject: Re: Tape Reliability Recommendations
As for reliability. That turns out to be a very mixed bag.
...snip...
For instance,
we have a site
I would be very curious to hear what type of reliability problems you have
seen with LTO. I have posted here before, but we have been experiencing
an incredibly high number of read errors with our 3584 LTO library. We
regularly see errors when trying to restore data from tapes. We have been
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Colby Morgan
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 3:24 PM
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Subject: Tape Reliability Recommendations
We are currently running TSM 5.1.5 on Win2k with an IBM Mammoth-2 drive for
offsite copypools. We have had problems with both our onsite M2 and offsite
M2 drives at our disaster recovery center. IBM has replaced the drive more
than a dozen times in the last two years and Exabyte has replaced
Colby,
We have been using the Exabyte M2 drives and tapes for a couple of years
now. We did have lots of problems and wore out several drives before we
found out that that running our four drive library on one 29160
interface was causing the drives and tapes to wear out. We reconfigured
and now
