Yea ive had this problem with our HP LTO drive. I investigated it a bit and the solution was to upgrade the firmware, which youve done. Basically HP said that the drive is showing memory failures where it shouldnt be. It might be an idea to do a test backup onto the tape in question because its...
Tom, kill the processes. Close backup exec, stop as many services as you can and then use kill.exe to stop the processes. the backup exec processes all start with be (beengine.exe, beserver.exe, etc.) You can see them all in the task manager.
If you dont have kill.exe goto www.google.com and...
yea that was the problem i was having, sorry should have posted it. Its a DLT tape drive and auto-eject is on but you have to physically take the tape out, it doesnt fully auto eject. With these types of drives backup exec sends a prompt after auto eject saying "take the tape out of the...
its a single tape drive (backing up onto one tape) and their isnt any outstanding alerts that i can see.
This is new though, over the last two days the backup times have varied. From 9 hours down to 6 (should be taking 4).
I might check out the drive itself, it could be faulty.
Anyone got any idea why this would be happening? Im backing up only a few servers (bdc, file and print x 2) and for some reason my backups have just recently stopped going beyond 99%. The log file looks fine, it seems like the backup and verify are both being completed perfectly but something...
there is a way of restoring to a machine with a different name, etc but its not exactly easy. We have a pc set up with win2k sp2 and exchange server all set up on it just waiting for an exchange restore. Basically what i do is restore the information stores striaght onto the pc into the right...
I have a backup exec question i was hoping one of you could answer for me. We are using Backup Exec version 8.6 under Windows 2000 Server and im required to perform a restore test once a week to make sure our tapes are storing the data were backing up. We back up about 120 gig of data every...
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