ChrisW76 Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 Hi! One annoying problem I have is that in order to do a Grandfather-Father-Son backup, I use a script to transfer the most recent backups from a daily tape set to a weekly tape set. If in the middle of this transfer another backup runs that needs to use the tape drive, it causes the tape-to-tape transfer to stop (as according to the log one of the tapes unexpectedly unmounted). The expected behaviour is that while the tape-to-tape transfer is running, Retrospect should not start any other backups requiring use of the tape drive. Or it should recognise that one of the tape drives is in use by another backup script and try again once it is no longer being used. If order to do my weekly transfer now I need to manually reschedule all scripts and disable proactive backups. Very annoying! Let me know if this is unclear! Cheers, Chris W. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisW76 Posted February 28, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2012 Specific error in the transfer scripts log when this problem happens is: !Device trouble: "<tape name>", error -216 (media unloaded). I don't understand why the silly thing can't reload it instead of stopping. Cheers, Chris W. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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