Chapter 6 Troubleshooting Guide
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LTO-4 (Model B) Half-Height Tape Drive User’s Guide
Failed Operations
TapeAlert Messages
The LTO-4 (Model B) Half-Height Tape Drive supports the TapeAlert
standard, and issues the appropriate alert messages in response to
operational error conditions. You can view TapeAlert messages either
directly, on the system screen, or in the log file of your backup
application. Note, however, that some operational error conditions can
cause more than one TapeAlert message.
The following subsections provide troubleshooting guidelines for
dealing with the most common TapeAlert error conditions.
acceptable, but backups still
seem to be slow,
it might be attributed to the
number of files and the
average size of the backup
files.
These factors can have a
significant effect on the
backup performance.
Backups where the average
file size is less than 200
Kbytes, for example, are
slower than backups where
the average file size is greater
than 200 Kbytes.
Obtain backup log files to
determine number of files
and average file size.
IF you believe that the
read/write transfer rate is .
. .
THEN . . .
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