The subject may sound like it could be a few problems, but it is just one error that I'm receiving more and more.
Specs,
Win2k Server SP3
BE 9.0 Rev 4454
Exabyte M2 Library
Snap! Server
With all that out of the way now. Our job scheme is backup to disk (NAS device), then we run a "duplicate" job of the original. All jobs are overwrites (we've already discovered the issues with appends). The exact error from the duplicate job is as follows.
Completed status: Failed
Final error code: a00084ca HEX
Final error description: The data being read from the media is inconsistent.
In the case of this job (which happened to be a differential) the backup-to-disk job completed without any errors, however the tape job did fail due to the above error. We have had times where the B2D job will complete with errors, and then the duplicate will fail where the inconsistency was found in the originating job.
My question is this. What does the error mean? And I've read the vague Veritas KB article. That's not good enough.
Also, does ver. 9.1 or 10 address this issue? If so, I'll upgrade.