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[eliboone]

Hello,


I am running Veritas Backup Exec version 8.5. I have diff, full, and off site jobs that run. For some reason the off site job will run when I right click on it and choose 'run now'. It says it is running and when I look at its properties the File Statistics change but after an hour or so the job fails when nothing in the 'Percent Complete' field. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks, Eli

 

[Lou0686]

Check your alerts for clues. Post the errors.

Lou

 

[eliboone]

Hi Lou0686,

I let the Diff backup run when I left yesterday. When I came in today it had Aborted. The only Alert is "Please insert overwritable media into the drive." The log file says.....

"Error - Mount failed.

^ ^ ^ ^ ^
User aborted a Physical Volume Library operation."

I don't know what this means or what I can try next.

Anyone have any thoughts,

Thanks, Eli

 

[eliboone]

Ok, I tried to run todays Diff job. When I inserted the tape (I relabled the tape yesterday.) Veritas gave the "Please insert overwritable media." message twice. I clicked ok both times. Then a new alert appeared saying...

"Media 'relabledextra' is overwrite protected.

The media in drive 'Tape Drive' is currently allocated and is not available for overwrite operations."

Then the tape was ejected.
Not sure what to try next.
Eli

 

[007711]

The tape might be locked physically to protect from overwriting.

 

[iainwatt]

Is the tape in a media set with an overwrite protection period set on it.

Run an inventory on the tape device when the tape is in the drive and see what it says under overwrite filed.

 

[eliboone]

Thanks for the replies 007711 and iainwatt,

I quick erased all of tapes and gave them a 1 hour overwrite protection period. Part of the problem was that there was more than 12 GB of data on my server so the tapes couldn't finish the backup job. I have definitely learned a lot about Veritas Backup Exec because of these problems. "Trial by Fire" lol

Thanks again,

Eli