I am in the process of building a new tape backup solution where the physical tape drive is on a different physical server to the backup software, and StarWind Tape Redirector seems the perfect tool to allow me to do this.
Existing solution using 1 server and no virtualisation:
HP ProLiant ML350G5 server with HP LTO4 tape drive, Windows Server 2008 R2, CA ARCserve Backup r12.5.
New solution using 2 servers and no virtualisation:
HP ProLiant ML350G5 server without tape drive, Windows Server 2012 R2, CA ARCserve Backup r16.5 SP1.
Dell PowerEdge 2900 server with HP LTO5 tape drive, Windows Server 2012 R2, StarWind Tape Redirector.
The existing solution works fine.
The new solution works fine up to a point. The first backup job (of server A) was started at 12:06:33 and ran to its completion at 12:42:20 successfully.
The second backup job (of server B) started at 12:46:17 and then at 13:09:01 the CA ARCserve Backup (running on the HP server) job log shows:
E6300 S0273SV-S2012R2 26/04/2015 13:09:01 6 A Windows NT SCSI port error occurred. (Device Number=[2], Serial Number=[])
When I check the Dell server (running the Tape Redirector), it reports that it had shut down unexpectedly!
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x0000001e (0xffffffffc0000005, 0xfffff8008e17d5ab, 0x0000000000000000, 0xffffffffffffffff). A dump was saved in: C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP. Report Id: 042615-28437-01.
- System
- Provider
[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-WER-SystemErrorReporting
[ Guid] {ABCE23E7-DE45-4366-8631-84FA6C525952}
[ EventSourceName] BugCheck
- EventID 1001
[ Qualifiers] 16384
Version 0
Level 2
Task 0
Opcode 0
Keywords 0x80000000000000
- TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2015-04-26T12:16:35.000000000Z
EventRecordID 86335
Correlation
- Execution
[ ProcessID] 0
[ ThreadID] 0
Channel System
Computer S0135SV-S8R2S64
Security
- EventData
param1 0x0000001e (0xffffffffc0000005, 0xfffff8008e17d5ab, 0x0000000000000000, 0xffffffffffffffff)
param2 C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP
param3 042615-28437-01
The third backup job (continuing the backup of server B from where it failed) started at 16:28:22 and then at 20:38:11 the CA ARCserve Backup job log shows:
E6300 S0273SV-S2012R2 26/04/2015 20:38:11 8 A Windows NT SCSI port error occurred. (Device Number=[2], Serial Number=[])
Once again, when I check the Dell server, it reports that it had shut down expectedly.
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x0000001e (0xffffffffc0000005, 0xfffff800d23695ab, 0x0000000000000000, 0xffffffffffffffff). A dump was saved in: C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP. Report Id: 042615-28062-01.
- System
- Provider
[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-WER-SystemErrorReporting
[ Guid] {ABCE23E7-DE45-4366-8631-84FA6C525952}
[ EventSourceName] BugCheck
- EventID 1001
[ Qualifiers] 16384
Version 0
Level 2
Task 0
Opcode 0
Keywords 0x80000000000000
- TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2015-04-26T19:43:50.000000000Z
EventRecordID 86548
Correlation
- Execution
[ ProcessID] 0
[ ThreadID] 0
Channel System
Computer S0135SV-S8R2S64
Security
- EventData
param1 0x0000001e (0xffffffffc0000005, 0xfffff800d23695ab, 0x0000000000000000, 0xffffffffffffffff)
param2 C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP
param3 042615-28062-01
Any suggestions as to what might be causing this would be gratefully received. The Dell server has been running for many months on test, and the only other occasion when it shut down unexpectedly was on 12 October 2014 when there was a power failure.
Many thanks
John
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