Ugh. PAX weekend backups are not working well, so I tried to run a manual backup today.
It was working ok until it got to EC0050, and then it had an I/O error. EC0051 also had an I/O error. They’re both some of the “new” tapes that Lou got. Really, they’re used tapes, guaranteed for 10 years (never mind that new DLT IV tapes are guaranteed for 30 years … no, wait, Imation’s web site has a lifetime warranty, as does Quantum’s). I think it’s time to tell Lou never to buy used tapes again.
Be that as it may, it looks like it de-assigned EC0047-EC0049 after the backups failed (noisily). I’ll check tomorrow morning (after the nightlies, hrm) to see if the cleaning light is on. If it’s not, I’ll try mounting EC0050 and writing junk to it to reproduce an error. If I can’t, I’ll try writing junk to it on MIR’s tape drive. I really hope there’s an error somewhere in there so I can take it back to Lou and say “Here, get me a new one. I mean new, ok?”
Posted by Rowan Littell at December 8, 2003 10:10 PM