Hello,
in the last weeks every now and then we had issues with defective tapes which causes our rather big jobs to fail. We can restart the backup and it will continue writing to a new tape. Oftentimes, the failures happen after 1 TB or so.
Is there any way to write the backups from the defective tape to another tape? Right now with monthly sets we always have to store the problematic tape with the other tapes and hope that at least that one TB is readable. Problem is that if we need to catalog the tape fully (for example after loosing the whole backup server) we cannot do this as often the catalog fails because of the CRC error after 1 TB in this example.
What happens if we mark the problematic tape as free? Will the files on that tape be re-written for the backup set after re-starting the job again?
Markus
in the last weeks every now and then we had issues with defective tapes which causes our rather big jobs to fail. We can restart the backup and it will continue writing to a new tape. Oftentimes, the failures happen after 1 TB or so.
Is there any way to write the backups from the defective tape to another tape? Right now with monthly sets we always have to store the problematic tape with the other tapes and hope that at least that one TB is readable. Problem is that if we need to catalog the tape fully (for example after loosing the whole backup server) we cannot do this as often the catalog fails because of the CRC error after 1 TB in this example.
What happens if we mark the problematic tape as free? Will the files on that tape be re-written for the backup set after re-starting the job again?
Markus
Statistics: Posted by mkretzer — May 28, 2024 12:00 pm
