End Marker Unreadable etc...

Do you notice any read/write errors under Statistics...if yes, run a diagnostics test under the tape drive...Also, do your disk backups complete successfully ?

This can be caused if a media server loses connection to a Remote Agent during a Remote Backup.  It can also happen if the BackupExec services die during a job.

"put the tapes back in, retired the media, deleted them and inventoried them. I tried to catalog them and the catalog job fails."

Yeah, once you get the quoted error on a tape volume, there isn't mch you can do to recover anthing that was on it when the error occurs.  You need to relabel and use as a scratch volume

Your "end marker not readable" problem with your tapes is the result of your job failure.  Once you have fixed the job failure problem, then you would not have your "end marker not readable" problem anymore.  You should look at your joblog to see what is the cause of your problem.

When a tape has "end marker not readable", it cannot be appended to, for obvious reason.  However, it can be overwritten.  To re-use the tape, you either wait for the OPP to expire and then overwrite it, or move it to the scratch media set and you can immediately overwrite it.  You don't have to retire or relablel it.

Thought I fixed the issue. It just started all over again. Daily and Full Backups had completed up to 2/20/12.

On the tandberg 3hh device the errors are as follows: 3150 soft read errors, 18 hard read errors, 928 Soft write errors, 17 hard write error. I found and ran the diag and the tracer. I'd like for someone to read it and give me more suggestions. I ran the diag and I am not sure how to read it. I ran 2 tracers not over 1mb. The first trace shows where my tape drive paused itself and I had to cancel the job before the tape would eject and then I restarted the BEWserver and tape drive came back online. These traces are exported to text. Please explain to me the events dropped, especially before the big errors at 10:56. The event viewer shows the error id9, source adpu320 with the generic description of :

The device, \Device\Scsi\adpu3201, did not respond within the timeout period.

I know it says to check my drivers but could someone verify that it is pointing to the Adaptec SCSI Card 29320LPE - Ultra320 SCSI, otherwise, I'm going in the wrong direction. Of course, I can't do any install /reinstall until everyone is off the system and that won't happen until tonight or this weekend. Or is this really saying we need to replace the Tandberg 3HH? Has anyone else experienced this? Please read and get back to me before 4:30p today.

Luckily it was still under warranty and we had the drive replaced no errors now!! Yay, Thanks pkh.

Thanks to all that gave suggestions too!

pkh,

Thank you for your kind reply!

I realize it is a forum, a very vaulable one at that! I apologize for phrasing my hopeful request of a reply. I am truly greatful for the reply and I shall read up on your article.