Tips - Troubleshooting

Tips - Troubleshooting - Techniques

While using SCO ARCserve/Open's Auto Pilot, from time to time you may run into problems. For instance, you may want to retire a tape because of excess media errors, or you forgot to put the right tape into the drive and the Auto Pilot job failed. This section helps you deal with some of the more common problems, and offers some helpful hints to use with Auto Pilot.

The areas covered in this section are:

general tips
cancelling Auto Pilot jobs
tape rotation - how to read the SCO ARCserve/Open database, just like Auto Pilot does, to determine which tape is used on a given day
using a new tape - implementing new ones, and retiring old, or error-prone tapes
what to do if a job fails
what to do if Auto Pilot misses a system during a backup job
what to do about holidays - setting up Auto Pilot when you are not going to be around for a day or two