HP Colorado Backup Tape Error

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Have you cleaned the drive with a cleaning tape?

doug

"Michael Arber" <thearbers@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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>I am using an external HP Colorado Backup II 8GBe Travan tape drive.
>Recently
> it will only run for about 20 minutes. After 20 minutes it appears hung
> up and
> stalled. It will remain stalled for about 10 minutes and then report
> "An error occurred while writing the backup data.
> A defective or damaged area was detected on the media.
> ...
> (08-03-23-01-1191)"
>
> I have tried using a new tape cartridge and it makes no difference. I
> tried
> backing up different directories and if it finishes in 20 minutes then
> there are
> no problems. If the Backup is in the verify stage after 20 minutes then
> it
> reports an error reading from the tape, instead of writing. At the 20
> minute
> point the backup has processed 402,422,852 bytes in my latest attempt.
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
> Michael
>
>
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