Re: dirty device

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Folks:

Please respond to this question in MIDRANGE-L, where it is more appropriate.

Thanks!

david
moderator

At 09:58 PM 5/8/2001, you wrote:
>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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