btaga.blogg.se - Veeam backup to tape

In the storage world, an operating system doesn’t know that a disk has failed in a RAID array if it’s controlled by a RAID controller, as long as it can continue to read/write it’s unaware of a problem with the underlying layer.

These tiers are often unaware of faults or early warning signs above or below them, for example:

Voltage supply low/high / Power Consumption low/highĪs technologies have evolved, we’ve added more abstract layers and isolations between tiers, and it’s great from some perspectives but restrictive to others.

Now some of these errors you might be expecting to see such as “Media Error”, your data is at risk or read/write warnings, but some of the warnings here really go above and beyond what Veeam NEEDS to look at to do its job, examples:

This web page has all of the alert codes, the severity of the issue, a description about the issue and what has caused the issue.

Tape Drive Alerts – Veeam Backup Guide for vSphere So I set about looking up the root cause of the problem and busted out some “Google-Fu” to find who else had these issues in the past and I found this page of Veeam Documentation: Warning: “TapeDrive alert: The voltage supply to the tape drive is outside the specified range.”Īs I said above, I’d never seen this warning before! I didn’t know that Veeam was tracking such attributes of the tape drives it uses. Now I’ve seen plenty of alerts for different backup issues, whether they’re caused by networks, BSODs, disk space constraints etc, but I got surprised by this completely new one.Ī Tape Drive Alert, but of an unexpected variety

I had an alert generated from a customer system today that I had never seen before. Everyday is a school day, and today I found out something really cool that Veeam was doing, that I never knew about because “ It Just Works”.