phillippe99 Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 I was doing a normal back-up to a new tape when, after writing about 3gb data, Retrospect came up with the following error; Device trouble: “3-Backup Set Purple”, error 101 (improper request). Does anyone know what it refers to? Is it the tape drive or the tape itself or is it a problem with Retrospect? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 Quote: Is it the tape drive or the tape itself or is it a problem with Retrospect? Without being given _any_ information about any of the various factors in play, it's pretty much impossible for anyone to say. Perhaps you could post your complete hardware and software configuration? Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phillippe99 Posted April 5, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 Thanks for that Dave Here is some more detail for you; I have a LaCie AIT Tape Library, connected by firewire to an xserve running OS 10.3.9 with 1gb ram. I use Sony AIT-2 TURBO 8MM-80/160GB data cartridges. The job was running on a schedule ie as Root user. First of all a dialog box with an error message popped up saying there was a fault with Retrospect but it didn't save that message in the log and I can't remember for sure what it said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phillippe99 Posted April 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 Hi All Eventually the Tape Drive itself owned up to a hardware error and I've sent it back for repair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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