Veritas "End of Tape" Error

[glen23]

Using Veritas 8.6 on Windows 2000 SP4 I recieved this error

"Physical End of Tape Encountered"

Why did I recieve this? It dosn't seem to be doing it on the past two backups for the Segate tape drive but i'm afraid of it coming back and i'd like an explanation!

 

[timwkao]

Glen,

I have seen this in the past. Something to check for is whether or not Overwrite protection is turned on. If you check the Job Log of the errored job, in the beginning you might see something that says "Overwrite Protection Time Left:".

If that's the case, then what you can do is go to Tools => Options => Media Overwrite tab and take off overwrite protection completely by selecting "None"

-OR-

Right click on the media set that the tape belongs in, and set the overwrite protection to fewer days in there.

I have version 7.5, so my steps may differ from yours. Sorry for late reply.

Hope this helps if you are still having the same issue!

 

[SQLBill]

Right click on the media (tape) and see what the stats show. How much has been backed up to the tape?

-SQLBill

 

[timwkao]

Hey SQLBill & glen23:

I guess what I did before didn't really work, as we are seeing the same error again.

SQLBill: On the tape statistics, it shows that just about 20 GB have been written, and the tapes are 20 GB. This was a brand new tape.

I guess I am wondering why Backup Exec is all of the sudden doing this when the past however many backups before it were compeltely fine? Or, why isn't it just overwriting the old data like it is supposed to?

This is also version 8.6 on W2K Server SP4.

Thanks in advance for you help!

 

[JimKarn]

We are running Backup Exec 8.6 on a Windows 2000 server also, and we get an error that says "Physical end of tape encountered". I need four tapes to back up our system, 125 meter DDS-3, 12/24 GB tapes. I have backed up the system for over a year now with no problems, and it suddenly began giving me this error message. It started by giving the message on the third tape, but now it comes up at the end of the first tape and won't bridge to the second tape. The log shows that the tape is getting information on it.
Daily backups work fine. I have tried renaming all the tapes, erasing them, and tried using new tapes, but nothing works. Overwrite is set. We run a Seagate DAT tape drive, maybe a little over a year old. Any ideas? Thanks for any help you can give us.