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In article <D8Fsos.1D0@bokonon.UUCP>, stephen@bokonon.UUCP says...
>
>   I just inherited a client this week who appears to have a long
>history of data corruption on their server.  I'm still working on
>the problem and doing all the maintenance stuff that their previous
>consultants didn't do (like what?  oh, little things like performance
>tuning, using current drivers, stuff like that).  From this
>background, when the client tells me that they've observed
>such-and-such, to some degree I have to take their word for it,
>so take this article's information with a grain of salt.
>
>...as ArcSolo will complain during the compare that a file is on
>the tape but not on the drive.  No damage appears to occur to the
>volume and no problems are noted in the system error log.  They
>say that turning off compare after verify makes the problem go
>away, though I don't know if that's true or if it just stops
>them from noticing.
>
>

Hello, Stephen!

Dont let Arcsolo and the client lead you off the track!

I have experienced an identical situation at one of my
customers. He had a Conner dat with Arcsolo 2.11
reporting a lot of files on tape that did not exist on disk
(6 pages with "files not on disk" -> customer panic).
The error trapping in Arcsolo /Arcserve is horrible, to be
modest; in this case the Dat was full of shit, and a cleaning
tape solved the problem!


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