I have tried to do a restore and the restore job can't even mount the tape needed for the restore job even after 1 hour(though none of the tape drives are currently being used). I am using version 8.6 and using windows.
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1. Is the tape listed in your catalog?
2. Have you tried to Inventory the tape before accessing it?
3a. What does the job log say as the job goes nowhere?
3b. Does it ever get to the point of saying something like "searching for backup set"?
4. What version of Windows, i.e., W2KserverSP4, XPpro SP2, etc.
5. What tape deck and SCSI controller?
6. Did it ever work?
Not sure, but I'm leaning towards bad tape and/or dirty tape heads. I assume that you've already rebooted both the server and the deck. Try a cleaning job and another tape. If that doesn't help... I'm out of ideas.
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