[Info-vax] Restoration of Saveset Failed

[Dave Froble]

On 12/4/2018 11:24 AM, Chris wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 11:03:00 AM UTC-5, Steven Schweda wrote:
>>> %BACKUP-E-FATALERR, fatal error on MKA100:[000000]CISABC_RMS3.BCK;
>>> -SYSTEM-F-VOLINV, volume is not software enabled
>>
>>     Bad/dirty tape/drive?  What is MKA100?  Try again?
>> "SHOW ERROR"?
>>
>>> %BACKUP-I-OPERASSIST, operator assistance has been requested
>>
>>        /NOASSIST
>
> Thank you for your Response Steven. MKA100 is the Tapedrive we have, I am trying to restore the disk save set stored in tape MKA100 to another disk as we have the one of the production disk crashed so I am restoring its save set backup to another disk which was stored in tape.
>
> I have application critical files in this disk So I had to Restore this save set to another disk in order to bring up the application which requires me to make progress on with this save set restore.
>
> The One difference which i noticed is , the Cluster size. Cluster size of the Disk which crashed is 408 and I am trying to restore its disk save set to another disk which was initialized with cluster size 16 does this anyway relates to this error.
>

No, the cluster size should not be an issue.  The error is with the tape 
drive, not the disk.

As Steven asked, what TYPE of tape drive?

Cleaning the tape drive would be something to try.

Trying another tape drive.

Do you have other backups?  On tape?  On disk?

You have just stated a good reason to use RAID 1, mirrored disks.

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