Matt_Freestyle
12 years agoLevel 4
Backup Exec 2012 Offlining HP Tape Drive Randomly
Hi All. First post here and I am really, really hoping for some help.
I am working on an environment that appears to have the fairly common problem of Backup Exec offlining an HP Autoloader at seem...
- 12 years ago
Hi All,
Sorry to drag this up from the grave. Also, sorry for not responding. The notification of replies started going into my junk for some reason!
Okay so I never did get the issue resolved on the existing hardware, in the end we ended up with HP diagnosing a "low level hardware issue". We shipped the customer an old server, whacked a new P212 RAID controller into it and connected the library up to it. So far, so good. It's been working for over a month now.
Seems the most likely cause of these SCSI reservation errors is as HP say, a low level hardware issue.
Thanks,
Matt.