I actually lost a bet on this one about 8 months ago. I said it was a
hardware problem and my co-worker said it was a bad tape. He was right.

Toss the tape ...


"Sheri" wrote in message news:3aeec55c$1@hronntp01....
>
> For the last two backups I have been getting the following error message
when
> trying to verify the backup.
>
> Verify of "E: TPASTUFF"
> Backup set #3 on storage media #1
> Backup set description: "FRIJOB"
> Verify started on 4/28/01 at 5:20:07 AM.
>
> Storage device "HP 1" reported an error on a request to read data from
media.
>
> Error reported:
> The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.
>
> ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
>
> Verify completed on 4/28/01 at 5:26:41 AM.
> Verified 6012 files in 249 directories.
> 0 files were different.
> Processed 137,621,580 bytes in 6 minutes and 34 seconds.
> Throughput rate: 20.0 MB/min
>
> I'm not really sure what could be causing this and would appriciate and
help
> you could give.
> I'm running Backup Exec 8.0 for NT Server and before these errors started
> showing up I rebooted the server and installed Norton Anti-Virus and IE
5.5.

I have the same problem. It works one day, then it doesn't the next day,
without any change to the job.

I got this, but I had a termination problem!!

"Sheri" wrote in message news:3aeec55c$1@hronntp01....
>
> For the last two backups I have been getting the following error message
when
> trying to verify the backup.
>
> Verify of "E: TPASTUFF"
> Backup set #3 on storage media #1
> Backup set description: "FRIJOB"
> Verify started on 4/28/01 at 5:20:07 AM.
>
> Storage device "HP 1" reported an error on a request to read data from
media.
>
> Error reported:
> The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.
>
> ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
>
> Verify completed on 4/28/01 at 5:26:41 AM.
> Verified 6012 files in 249 directories.
> 0 files were different.
> Processed 137,621,580 bytes in 6 minutes and 34 seconds.
> Throughput rate: 20.0 MB/min
>
> I'm not really sure what could be causing this and would appriciate and
help
> you could give.
> I'm running Backup Exec 8.0 for NT Server and before these errors started
> showing up I rebooted the server and installed Norton Anti-Virus and IE
5.5.