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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume II
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  4. How NetBackup reserves drives
  5. About checking for tape and driver configuration errors
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume II

About checking for tape and driver configuration errors

To detect data loss, the bptm process reads the tape position and then verifies the actual position against the expected position.

If a configuration problem causes the actual position to be greater than the expected position at the end of the backup process, the following events occur:

  • The tape is frozen.

  • The backup fails.

  • The following error message entry is placed in the bptm log:

    FREEZING media id xxxxxx, too many data blocks written, check 
    tape/driver block size configuration

The backup data may be usable. If so, import the image by using the NetBackup bpimport command so the data is available for restores.

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