Hello,
After having backups working fine for a few days (this was a new install), I've now hit a new roadblock. All my backup jobs are now failing, about 30-60 minutes in. The environment:
Windows 2003 R2 Server running BE11d (with all hotfixes)
Adaptect 39320A Ultra320 SCSI with latest Adaptec Drivers
Dell Powervault 124T with latest Dell autoloader drivers and symantec tape drivers (It's a Certance LTO2 drive).
The error it fails with from BE's point of view is:
The device, \Device\Scsi\adpu3201, did not respond within the timeout period.
However my tape library management interface shows the following tape alerts:
Flags[1-64]:2400100000000000
TA[03]-HardError
TA[06]-WriteFailure
TA[20]-CleanNow
Of course I clean the drive after each failure (with a new cleaning tape), and even change the media it's writing on to a brand new LTO2 tape.
Now the obvious question: "what changed?". Well, I did make one change about the time things went bad. I read in other post a suggestion to turn off Write Single Block, and to increase the buffers to 128k to increase performance. So I made those changes and rebooted. It was about 3 backup jobs later that things started to fail. So I have since changed them back to the original (Symantec default) settings, rebooted, but backup jobs still fail.
That's the only change I know of. To me it sounds like it might be a drive failure, but it's so new, that I would be surprised. Anything else I should look at?
Thanks!
