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rblumenthal0
Level 4
16 years ago

getting Not Appendable (End marker unreadable)

I have Backup Exec 11d. I just ran an inventory on some of the tapes in our library (we have a Dell Powervault Tl2000) and 4 of them came back with 'Not appendable (end marker unreadable)'. what coul...
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  • Ken_Putnam's avatar
    Ken_Putnam
    16 years ago

     

    that generally happens when a job does not end normally for some reason, and BackupExec does not write the End-Marker properly

     

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Larry_Fine
Level 6
16 years ago

to clarify my comment.... your tapes MAY be bad (as the others indicated).  What I meant to say was that your tapes are not bad simply because the end marker is unreadable.  There are multiple reasons a tape can be marked end-marker-unreadable.  You won't know the true reason until you do some more research or run into it again.