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kproehl
Level 5
10 years ago

seeing media write errors (84) on some of my backup jobs

i Hi Everyone,   I recently started to see some media write errors on some of my backup jobs.  We currently write all of our backups to 10 IBM LTO4 tape drives.  The tape library is a Quantum-I...
  • mph999's avatar
    10 years ago

    The tape alert means ...

    Flag 3: Hard error. Severity: Warning
    Flag 6: Write failure. Severity: Critical
    Flag 20: Cleaning required. Severity: Critical
    Flag 39: Diagnostics required. Severity: Warning

    Maybe a bad drive, or one that just needs cleaning ....