Is there a "bad tape" report?

I have some old tapes that I suspect may be unreliable.

How do I detect "bad tapes" or failed media?
Is there a report on tapes that have had a failure or repeated failures?
How does NetWorker report on such media related failures? (assuming it does)
Any suggestions on weeding out old, failing tapes?

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Anonymous

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March 27th, 2009 14:00

Bad tapes can be detected during the recover operation. The other option would be to run ¿scanner¿ command on the tape. If you don¿t get any errors, it¿s a good tape.
No, there isn¿t any report available on tapes which have repeated failure.

Error: 'nsrd: media info: can not read record 'no#' of file 'no#' on 'drive type' tape 'tepe label'

either doing a recover OR scanner command can be used to confirm tape's status.

ble1

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March 28th, 2009 04:00

There is no such report, but saveset during read operation (recover or clone) would be marked as suspect. Listing savesets marked that way might reveal potentially bad tapes.

Hari5

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March 28th, 2009 06:00

No such report as such. The only way to check is to run a scanner or restore job on the tape and if there is a problem, Networker will mark the tape as suspect. The only way is the hard way unfortunately

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