I am evaluating Veritas BE v8.6 after having real fun with CA Arcserve. I have installed the BE v8.6 on a W2K server Sp2 running Exchange 5.5 Advanced.
Whenever I load a tape, be that a 'virgin' or used tape the system reports 'bad media'. I can not seem to erase the tape, after 10 minutes I killed the job. A cleaning tape is then requested before any further backups can be attempted!
Other issues I have noticed is that ejecting the media through BE v8.6 takes 6 minutes, it takes 8 minutes to realise that it can not backup to the media as it is 'bad media', are these time scales normal?
The only suggestion veritas online support comes up with is to try and erase the tape through NTbackup - which I have tried without success - any suggestions would be appreciated on all these matters.
Cheers
Guy
Whenever I load a tape, be that a 'virgin' or used tape the system reports 'bad media'. I can not seem to erase the tape, after 10 minutes I killed the job. A cleaning tape is then requested before any further backups can be attempted!
Other issues I have noticed is that ejecting the media through BE v8.6 takes 6 minutes, it takes 8 minutes to realise that it can not backup to the media as it is 'bad media', are these time scales normal?
The only suggestion veritas online support comes up with is to try and erase the tape through NTbackup - which I have tried without success - any suggestions would be appreciated on all these matters.
Cheers
Guy