Sean Kelly - RJC: Tape drive marketers claim 3 TB on a single LTO5 cartridge assuming a compression ratio of 2:1 is achieved. In most cases, you're likely to average within the 1.2:1 ~ 1.5:1 compression ratio range. Backup Exec sends the proper SCSI ...
Running simultaneous backups could help your situation. You might see a slight drop in performance if both the drives are on the same controller or channel. When considering the second drive be mindful of giving it exclusive access to/from the server...
Experience tells me this is a drive issue, as Larry Fine has pointed out in his initial post. You can clean the heads of the drive unitl the cows come home but that won't gurantee to free tape heads which are clogged.
When heads are clogged, HP LTO d...
It's concerning that the tape drive appears as Tape0 or Tape1 at times, in the OS. If there is only one tape drive attached to the server then it should enumerated as Tape0.
When the tape drive is reporting as Tape1, look at the following key to see ...
Selvum,
Please try again to capture a trace of an inventory on the drive and attach the output in your next reply.
I've reposted my previous instructions for your convenience:
Prior to running an inventory of the drive, start the Backup Exec tracer.e...
