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by narsingbabu

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Iam using overland lto ultriam 3 tape drive, now iam not able to take the back up more than 200 GB , after completing 2 or 3 hours the back up process is stopped.The logs are as below:

error: The device reported an error on a request to write data to tape
error reported: hardware failure

Event ID : 8001,8019
O.S : windows 2003 server enterprise

we are taking the backing from ntbackup

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by 1bn0

Write error means either bad media or a bad drive , usually.

by oh smeg

Much more importantly is it protected from sucking in dust and other airborne junk that can damage the Head?

Have you tried cleaning the head?

Have you tried a different Tape to rule out the actual Tape which could have a [b]Bad[/b] spot or part along it's length?

Have you tried to Format the Tape and see what happens then?

As stated above Write Errors are almost always related to either a Faulty Tape or Tape Drive.

Col

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