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March 29th, 2012 09:00

DiskXtender compact media task hangs

I have a piece of double sided WORM media that appears to have some corruption. In an attempt to recover the files on the media, I ran a media compact task on side A. The task completed and the log is shown below:

Compact started at 3/29/2012  9:07:34 AM

Source media information:

...Drive name:    Drive 1

...Device name:   SCSI.3.0.5.0

...Description:   HP      C1113

...Media:         FED-19A Target information:

...Agent name:      IMSDENCOLDDX01

...Drive letter:    D:

...Directory name:  \MMS\ Compact options selected:

...(there are no options at this time)

Compact ended at 3/29/2012  9:17:42 AM

Compact completion statistics:

...Files processed:          0 (0 bytes)

...Files fetched:            0 (0 bytes)

...Files not needing fetch:  0 (0 bytes)

...File error count:         0

...Total time:               00:10:08

Compact successfully completed.

It doesn't appear that this task copied any file information back to the extended drive does it?

Secondly, when I run the compact task on side B of the same media, the task just hangs with this information in the media log:

Compact started at 3/29/2012  9:20:35 AM

Source media information:

...Drive name:    Drive 1

...Device name:   SCSI.3.0.5.0

...Description:   HP      C1113

...Media:         FED-19B

Target information:

...Agent name:      IMSDENCOLDDX01

...Drive letter:    D:

...Directory name:  \MMS\ Compact options selected:

...(there are no options at this time)

I a new admin taking over our AX and DX systems and am lost as to how to recover the image files stored on this media.

I already removed this media from DX and the jukebox and then promoted the copy media to original but side B of the copy media fails to complete a file restore so I took out the copy and loaded the original media back into the jukebox and DX.

If anyone can give me some guidance on how best to tackle this situation, I would greatly appreciate it.

March 29th, 2012 10:00

you might want to first try file restores on the originals. If they complete successfully, then try the compactions. I have seen situations where the file restore is needed first, in order for the compaction to complete successfully.

April 2nd, 2012 07:00

Thanks for the input, Bill.

I started a compact before I left on Friday and it completed successfully over the weekend. It took forever, but completed nonetheless.

I've got some other issues going on buy I will post those as separate questions once I am able to intelligently pose them.

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