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  • Subject: dirty device
  • From: "Len Lester" <whylenny@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 19:58:59 -0700

We're having a problem with backup.  It normally takes 3 hours but last 
night it ran for 11 hours before it was cancelled.  There are informational 
messages on the operator's message queue about the tape drive needing to be 
cleaned but these appear every night.

The tape drive is cleaned daily but after so many gigabytes of saved data, 
the dirty device messages seem to be inevitable.

One theory is that the media itself may be dirty which makes the tape drive 
dirty.  This could explain the variation in elapsed time.

Could the device getting dirty slow down the job that much?

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