I am curious if people see failed backups regularly, occasionally, or hardly at all due to IO errors on the tapeserver bus. My own failed backups seem to be linked to questionable tapes which may have been ready to fail anyways. Unfortunately, the ecrix tapes are very expensive to me and I hate having to replace them since each one is almost $100. The tape errors are about rewinding or issues with the tape itself.
What are other's experiences with the VXA-1 or is tape just a dirty media and tapes fail very often, etc? I wish I knew the history of some of the tapes, but I don't. I also upgraded the firmware on the VXA-1 since I have no idea when that was last done. I have run a tape cleaner through the tape drive recently (perhaps a week ago or so). Secondarily, I am curious if people have recommendations for scsi-based tape drive solutions which would work well on a home LAN configured as follows: 2 debian unstable systems doing desktop and one webserver on testing 1 Windows XP Pro box (workstation/desktop) 1 BSD box doing critical stuff (firewall) 1 Windows 98 SE box (kidster computer) 1 debian laptop The linux systems are all running a recent kernel. Each system probably has a few gigs of used up space except for the BSD box. Now the VXA-1 backs up all the *nix stuff easily on one tape and I like that operation! Thanks and a happy New Year to all of you! -- Michael Perry | "Do or do not; there is no try" Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org
