Veritas 9.1 problem 1

[gpastorelli]

Hi everyone,
Having this nagging problem with my Veritas backup exec. I setup new backup jobs on all 3 of our servers (running the same version, same configurations), but just one of my servers keeps throwing this error -

Media '4MM000004' is overwrite protected.

The media in drive 'HP 1' is currently allocated and is not available for overwrite operations.

Anyone know how I can correct it? I've used the same type of media that works in the others and I've even tried using brand new media. Thanks for any and all help.

 

[steveot]

What media set does it belong to? Is it in a media set that has infinte overwrite protection?

 

[gpastorelli]

steveot,
Unfortunately I'm not very experienced with Veritas (only been using it at this job and I've only been here for 1 month), your post with regard to media set prompted me to go through and delete all the retired sets. It worked, I tested on a full backup and scheduled a backup and it worked fine.

To be honest, I don't know why my company invested in this software when company policy is a full backup nightly, we could've used ntbackup for that.

Although I will be looking further as the time comes up into working with veritas more in-depth as I know a lot of companies use it and it would look good on my resume.

Thank you for your advice.

- Greg

Greg Pastorelli, Network Administrator
Pocono Community Bank
MCSE:Security, MCDST, C|EA
Security+, Network+, A+