bad tape with reused or replace?

[sutthisak]

Hi All,

I have more questions about the tape LTO5. If tape error "bad tape" can I reuse it? or have to replace

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Thank you.

[sutthisak]

this bad tape It has only been used for 6 months.

[quebek]

Hi
My take is to throw it away, too many mounts. Check this out:
Cartridge Life
• Durability – 1,000,000 passes on any area of tape, equates to over 20,000
end-to-end passes/260 full tape backups.
Taken from: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://downloads.dell.com/manuals/common/power...

[sutthisak]

my mount tape=854, every time there is a bad tape I replaced the new tape and used the old code. The tape mount value will not reset = 1, possibly because the data on the tape has not expired. So i don't know what the actual mount tape is, i see that the tape is frozen i will unfreeze and try again.

Thank you.

[quebek]

Hi
Number of mounts its kept on the tape itself, just checj the inventory in library's GUI interface. There is nfc chip on each tape tracking that.

[Tape_Archived]

Sometimes robot cannot mount the tape and throws the error and NetBackup freezes the Tape.

I would go to Tape Library console and see if Library has any errors for these Tape medias. If needed open a support ticket with your Tape Library vendor for their recommendation.

I usually reuse the Tape if its frozen for mounting issue but bad tapes should be reused unless its a false positive message from library/netbackup.

[DPeaco]

Yea but that tape has been "mounted" almost 900 times in that 6 month timeframe. Mounting and unmounting tapes puts a lot of wear and tear on the tape leader and pickup pin. This seems like the tapes aren't getting rotated on a regular basis and the tape mount count continues to climb, which is not good for the longevity of your tape media.