[Info-vax] Restoration of Saveset Failed

[Bob Gezelter]

On Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 12:11:52 PM UTC-5, Dave Froble wrote:
> 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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> David Froble                       Tel: 724-529-0450
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Chris,

Pardon the obvious, but if experimenting with different drives, it is highly preferable to NOT use the high-value backup cartridge.

Get a cartidge, preferably a virgin cartridge, and see if there are problems recording and reading savesets.

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com