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Newbie...Message: Please insert overwritable Media... What gives?

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BigHeadDawg

IS-IT--Management
Oct 20, 2004
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Hi,
I am brand new with Veritas software and am running Veritas Backup Exec 9.1 for Windows 2003 Standard Ed. I have set up my job as a full system backup onto one tape. This is a single tape backup unit and I am backing up a file server. I input a new tape, set it to back up starting at midnight and I come in the next day to find nothing has backed up, the tape is ejected and the messages I am getting are as follows:

Please insert overwritable media into the drive.

Overwritable media includes scratch, blank, and recyclable media. Please note that depending on the current Media Overwrite Protection setting, imported and allocated media may be overwritable as well. Consult the online help for more information on overwritable media.

My disk is new and therefore blank and I haven't been able to figure out how to get this backup done. Any help out here on this?

Regards
BigHead.
 
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