> [...] but I don't concur with simply destroying any > tape that ever gets an error.
Nobody advocated that; toss-versus-try-it-again was after addressing the OP's other possibilities and after checking the logs to see what really happened. > 10 minutes of troubleshooting isn't going to kill you Ten minutes of troubleshooting, after one has already expended more than that to determine that it is a media error, that it was more than one on the same tape, that NetBackup's simple "is it the tape or the drives" logic has decided it was the tape, and in which the testing will either confirm the tape is bad or, worse, not fail because it won't write similar bits to the same spots on the same tracks as the original errors, is not only ten minutes of even a junior admin's time wasted, it is dangerous. So you ran a test and it worked, you re-use the tape and it craps out a long backup the next night. How good a decision was that? Worse, it fails on a restore two years from now when you Really Need That Data. Saving fifty bucks on a new tape was worth losing data? _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - [email protected] http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
