There is no media in the storage device

[zuet41]

I am getting this warning "There is no media in the storage device" with a code of "a00084ce HEX" when I look at the back up it looks complete, I am running a win2k server with an hp storageworks 36/72 DDS5 external. Our largest back up is a SQL database at about 30 gigs, about 8 gigs of other info.

I have sat and watched this back up for all 3 hours and it will get within a few %'s of finishing and then fail with the above message. My back up is complete, I just want that darn error of my job so I can sleep at night.
Thanks,
Paul

 

[SQLBill]

Are there any other alerts? It looks like your tape is full and a second tape is needed.

What is the total GB of everything you are backing up? Are you allowing overwrite or only append?

-SQLBill

 

[zuet41]

Bill,

No other alerts, we are backing up about 37 gigs of data, it is set to overwrite, I made a much smaller job today, and it completed, I just can't believe my compression is only giving me 37 gigs with a possible 72?

Paul

 

[SQLBill]

That happens. It's only an estimate and is rarely ever reached (however, I have been able to do 416 GB to a 100/200 GB tape - go figure).

BTW- in Backup Exec, do you have USE HARDWARE COMPRESSION or USE SOFTWARE COMPRESSION?

-SQLBill

 

[zuet41]

Bill,

I have installed the Vweritas driver, tried hardware compression, then went to software. It is still on software, same problem last night. I went thru my report, and it says everything was backed up on the individual servers, but the verify on each says "unable to find media".

Also as I stated the majority of the back up is a SQL database, I have noticed I am getting fairly slow speeds (160 gigs) when the other servers are close to 300 gigs a minute. I am considering moving the external back up drive off the Main server to the SQL server...any thoughts?

I'm glad the weekends here!!

 

[SQLBill]

Are you doing successfull backups of other servers using this Backup Exec server?

Are you using the SQL Server Agent?

-SQLBill