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In my case as the whole setup was installed when the daily backup was only about 10GB this problem slowly crept up on me. Again if I had the time, possible a weekend when I could slow the server down a bit, I would take a new tape and using any data I could lay my hands on, see just how much Std...

Hello Cap21 Thanks for the almost intant reply, none of us can guarantee an imediate reply unless you have nothing else to do. I presume you mean 25~27GB native = about 20GB compressed. The original files to be backed up (native) are as said largely DWG Autocad files. These from my previous...

Hello CAP21 and others, Your comments are noted. As a fully doodah'd HP engineer, perhaps you could explain for all... How much data can a HP Surestore DAT40 drive put onto an HP C5718A DDS-4 40GB tape? Just what happens when you exceed the 50 times use for a tape? Does it suddenly fall over the...

Try erasing the tapes. I have not had any further problems since I did this. Of course it might not have anything to do with the problem but it's worth a go. Use the 'long erase'? option. I do know that 40GB is not a guarantee but if you can only get 20 GB of data on a 40GB tape why advertise...

Yep, I do manually reset the figures in the cleaning tab - if I remember. Most weeks I actually clean about 3 times and in the event of any errors sometimes clean twice. Tim.

The drive is an HP Surestore DAT40 C5683A. This is cleaned at least once a week. That's another query, what tells you that the cleaner tape has reached the end? In my drive and under VERITAS backup Exec 8.0, you cannot perform a 'clean job'. When I enquired I was told by the HP people that to...

More Info, After inserting some old media and telling Backup Exec that it could use it and yes it is rewritable and yes get on with it, the backup continued for about another 500MB and then completed. It then asks for the first tape for verify etc etc. Presuming that the fault here really is the...

SQLBill The backup has just finished, or rather just not finished. At 25.2GB on a 40GB tape job status changes from 'running' to 'loading media', the tape is then ejected and I am requested to 'Please insert overwritable media into the drive'. If I respond with no or cancel and then abort the...

SQLBill, I have tried checking tape properties but all seems ok, the only entry in the statistics tab under errors is 4 soft read errors. Even if this is a faulty tape, all the others I use for separate daily backups must all have failed at the same time. Strange, I have just erased one of the...

SQLBill Thanks for the reply. You may well be correct but if so, why doesn't the silly software flag this up? When I tried to get technical help for what I see is a possible software problem, the call centre would not proceed unless I gave them my plastic details and coughed up 93 euro's. I...

Thank you for the reply. This has obviously crossed my mind but the system has backed up larger amounts of data to the same tape on other occasions. The tape capability is 40Gb and am only backing up about 25Gb. All jobs are set to full overwrite. I did however do a 'run now' on a backup job...

Hi All, I have BE 8.0 on W2000 server platform that has been performing more or less perfectly for a year or so but now I have the following problem. Although the times and backup size etc are correct and everything seems to have backed up OK, the job monitor says 'loading media' or similar. I...