Recent content by alintz

Thanks for the hint, Cyklops. You were right, the messages originate from firmware (not a driver) inside the HP T20 tape drive and get passed on to ArcServe. I still have no hard definition of the criteria that triggers the message, but I must track down HP to get it and leave this ArcServe...

I still don't have my answer. The tapes that produce the 'end of life' message have an expiration date of October 2003, so expiration date is not the trigger. But what is? I have erased tapes completely, then reformatted and the tape still produces the message. I understand that 1 year of...

Using ArcServe 6.5. Two tapes in a set of 5 daily backup tapes produce the warning: Tape cartridge has reached the end of its useful life. The tapes are reformatted at each backup, and that resets the expiration date to 1 year from now. The tapes show no read or write errors, and restore...

I had a similar problem with ArcServe recently. It turned out to be the (Computer Associates) InoculateIT virus software that was checking each file during bcakup. Backups that used to take 6 minute now took hours. The fix was simply to disable virus checking in Arcserve (Modify Job, Backup...

Problem was caused by InoculateIT virus checking software. When the InoculateIT option "Allow Fast Backups" was enabled, the tape backup response returned to normal. I guess the virus update on Wed 6/21 disabled that option (even though many previous updates both automatic and manual...

ArcServe 6.5 build 620 on an NT SBS server with a HP T20 tape drive (no client backups just the server). Starting on the evening of 6/19/02, 6G backup time went from 2 hr to 44 hr! No error messages are produced in any log that I can find. A Restore operation from a backup tape seemed to occur...