Actually I think I have it solved now. I ended up updating the firmware on both the tape autoloader and on the tape drive itself. Since the udpates I've gotten a week straight of good backups which just plain did not occur before the updates.
Thanks for your replies though.
Just upgraded our backup software from 11.1 to 12 SP1. I've been having trouble with my nightly job failing on one of my servers ever since. It starts off formatting the tape and backing up data fine, but partway through the job fails with E3895 "Unable to position media". It seems to happen...
We have a number of Intel 815-based machines that had this problem. They had the Soundmax cards integrated into the motherboard. An updated Soundmax driver fixed the problem.
Can someone tell me what the adverse implications might be for using Ghost Walker to change the SID on our machines instead of Sysprep? I have seen all the recommendations to use sysprep, but why? Are we setting ourselves up for dire consequences if we don't? We've tried both, I frankly...
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