Tape Alerts

[Eric_Sabo_2]

Sometimes I get the following "Warning - The tape drive is having problems reading data. No data has been lost, but there has been a reduction in the performance of the tape."

Can anyone tell me why I get this message?

[Ameet_Thakkar]

In order to troubleshoot the problem, kindly refer the following technote articles.

Title:- Title:- How to determine the cause of a Tape Alert (Hardware) message that is reported in the Backup Exec job log

http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/230206.htm


As a related document, kindly refer the following technote:-

Title:- How to determine the cause of a Tape Alert (Hardware) message that is reported in the Backup Exec job log http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/230206.htm

We hope this helps. Let us know if the problem still exists and revert back with the error message.