Re: [Veritas-bu] External event caused rewind during write.
I've seen the external event message before here, and it was due to SCSI reserve not being set on the drive, allowing another host to send commands to the drive while the backup was being written to the tape. But this was back in the 3.4 days. Jack L. Forester, Jr. UNIX Systems Administrator, Stf Lockheed Martin Information Technology (304) 625-3946 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Lightner Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 11:27 AM To: Justin Piszcz; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] External event caused rewind during write. We've seen it and it appears to be the drive itself (LTO-1/Ultrium). FYI: This corrupts the backup so when you try to restore later it will give you messages about bad tar headers. Do NOT rely on this backup even if you later see 0 exit status. We even had one drive that it appeared it corrupted EXISTING backups on a tape when it mounted it and experienced this issue. It appears the vendor actually sent the drive back to us without correcting this behavior so we had to send it back. We now record the Serial Number and problem for all drives we send back so we'll know if we get a refurbished drive back later and experience the same problem we'll be able to gig the support vendor. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 6:33 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] External event caused rewind during write. 1204936626 1 132 16 media-server-name 2429907 2429907 0 client-name bptm FREEZING media id CA1234, External event caused rewind during write, all data on media is lost Anyone ever seen this before? What is this usually caused by, bad/old media, or? Justin. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail may contain privileged or confidential information and is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this information is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please reply immediately to the sender that you have received the message in error, and delete it. Thank you. -- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] External event caused rewind during write.
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Jeff Lightner wrote: > We've seen it and it appears to be the drive itself (LTO-1/Ultrium). > > FYI: This corrupts the backup so when you try to restore later it will > give you messages about bad tar headers. Do NOT rely on this backup > even if you later see 0 exit status. > > We even had one drive that it appeared it corrupted EXISTING backups on > a tape when it mounted it and experienced this issue. It appears the > vendor actually sent the drive back to us without correcting this > behavior so we had to send it back. We now record the Serial Number and > problem for all drives we send back so we'll know if we get a > refurbished drive back later and experience the same problem we'll be > able to gig the support vendor. Nasty problem, thanks for the heads up! ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] External event caused rewind during write.
We've seen it and it appears to be the drive itself (LTO-1/Ultrium). FYI: This corrupts the backup so when you try to restore later it will give you messages about bad tar headers. Do NOT rely on this backup even if you later see 0 exit status. We even had one drive that it appeared it corrupted EXISTING backups on a tape when it mounted it and experienced this issue. It appears the vendor actually sent the drive back to us without correcting this behavior so we had to send it back. We now record the Serial Number and problem for all drives we send back so we'll know if we get a refurbished drive back later and experience the same problem we'll be able to gig the support vendor. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 6:33 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] External event caused rewind during write. 1204936626 1 132 16 media-server-name 2429907 2429907 0 client-name bptm FREEZING media id CA1234, External event caused rewind during write, all data on media is lost Anyone ever seen this before? What is this usually caused by, bad/old media, or? Justin. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail may contain privileged or confidential information and is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this information is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please reply immediately to the sender that you have received the message in error, and delete it. Thank you. -- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] External event caused rewind during write.
1204936626 1 132 16 media-server-name 2429907 2429907 0 client-name bptm FREEZING media id CA1234, External event caused rewind during write, all data on media is lost Anyone ever seen this before? What is this usually caused by, bad/old media, or? Justin. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
