[Nottingham] Tape Backup failure

[David Wolfson]

For the moment I'm choosing to think that I've done something wrong rather than the hardware being shot.  It's the more likely of the options!  Once I'm confident that it should work, I'll certainly investigate the ?*shot* hardware option... Afterall, it was bought on a research budget (read *on the cheap*),

Dave

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David Wolfson

Institute of Biomechanics
School of 4M
University of Nottingham

eaxdrw at nottingham.ac.uk
Tel: 0115 951 3277

>>> robert at grinning-cat.com 08/06/2004 11:31:51 >>>
David,
Thought #2, have you hooked up a second drive (I know, these things 
don't grow on trees :) and given it a shot with that script (changing 
the dev paths obviously).  Finally, if the drive is external have you 
tried the drive on another machine?  No one likes to say it but DAT 
drives fail a *lot* more often than DLT or LTO (if you have you some 
money next budget go spring for an LTO, the IBM units are rumored to 
have better reliability than IBM's own much more expensive 3592 units) 
so don't be surprised if the tape hardware is shot.
Regards.
Robert.


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