Uninstalling and reinstalling solved the problem. Lesson learned--have all the hardware hooked up before installing the software.
Now, when I try to back up the Snap NAS server, it looks like it is backing up but it is giving me a credential failure. Any ideas?
They are brand new tapes. I just took them out of the unit when I realized I needed to put barcodes on them.
I left all settings at default. And the tapes are all writeable--the little slider is not on write-protect.
I let Veritas install its' drivers. The only driver that I installed was...
Okay, I followed those steps. Still no media. I went into devices. It has inventory greyed out but it shows the slots I have filled with tapes in them correctly labeled.
But when I try to run a backup, it fails a test run on capacity check. Am I doing something wrong on the Overland unit...
They are not in either place. I used default settings for the tapes. I didn't set up anything in the media pool. No media at all shows in the media pool.
Something is not jiving between the Overland and BE9, I think. I will have to read every manual that came with it, I guess. I will take...
The 100% sure way to make sure a backup is working is to restore to another location and make sure the data is there and it is what it is supposed to be. You can try restoring data and reading it or restoring a program and trying to run it.
Good luck!
It won't see media. But that was after I did a few tests and it said it couldn't check capacity. I am using an Overland tape unit.
Do I have to set up anything past the defaults. Why can't these things be simple? Okay, I'm a little frustrated. The tapes were showing up with the right...
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