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manmuel

IS-IT--Management
Nov 25, 2003
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Using Veritas 7.3 under WIN NT4 SP6 with streamer HPC5683A.
Backup job starts at 10:45 pm, tape was already inserted at office hours before. Job hangs next morning with message 'tape not recognized', tape is thrown out. By messagelog tape was thrown out 5 min after starting backup.
When same tape is inserted at morning once more the job runs fine. This malfunction repeats each day with various tapes and we can't find an error. The system worked a long time correct until it changed to this behaviour, without having changed anything. Did somebody had similar problems?
 
Sounds like the tape drive is getting old. Is it old?
May be an intermittant h/w fault on the drive.
 
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