Veritas netbackup on Win2000

[bsek]

I have 10 tapes in the volume pool. Everyday backup is failling and getting error message like,

Status = media write error

Subject: Backup on xxxxx - 84.

Do I need to re-initialize the retention tapes?

I have one job scheduled Friday afternoon, Still it is running. Normally it used to take 40mins to complete. I have cancelled that job but it did't stop.


Do I need to stop and start netbackup processes on the master server? If yes how?


Thanks in advance.

 

[ctheobald]

This may be obvious, but its bitten me once or twice. Are your tapes write-protected? I've gotten an error 96 in this instance, and the GUI happily showed the write-protected tapes as available. Much confusion ensued. A manual check of the tapes showed the problem, which can occur if you bring a tape from the vault and forget to unset the write-protect tab.

 

[bsek]

Thank you. I have received some tapes from the data center. I am inserting tapes by default they came and adding into appropriate pools. Do you want me to move mannually write-protect tab? How do I know write-protected tapes from the GUI?