Re: Tape backup failures

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I tried the solution below, or a variation on it at least. Firstly, I was
pretty sure I had a different type of tape drive, I found the following
command to list the drives on my unit:
rsm.exe view /tlibrary

Then, I created the batch file as below but rather than add it to the
scheduled tasks, I added the ntbackup command to the end of the batch file so
that I could test it out directly. (I got an error saying that it did not
like the sleep command but apart from that the batch file seemed to run OK).

Unfortunately, I still got errors on trying a backup, similar to before.

I will try the other group for SBS 2003 but if anyone does have any
inspiration then please let us know.

Thanks,
Jeremy


"Larry Struckmeyer [SBS-MVP]" wrote:

Hi Jeremy:

You might have more eyes, and therefore more sucess in the SBS 2003 group.
This is for SBS 2000.

However, here is a possible fix from MS CSS:

<snip>
By the way, In order to sharing our experience with the other users and
help them to search/find specific answers more efficiently in the future, I
would like to make a summary here:

Problem description:
NTbackup failed because of that the tape media library will not get ready
by itself after each backup while using Exabyte VXA-3 SCSI tape drive as
backup device

Cause:
RSM did not recognizing the media correctly

Resolution:
1. Click Start\Run and type notepad to open notepad.
2. Added following content to the notepad:
start /wait rsm.exe refresh /lf"Exabyte VXA-3 SCSI Tape Drive"
start /wait rsm.exe inventory /lf"Exabyte VXA-3 SCSI Tape Drive" /afull
sleep 60
3. Click File\Save as to save the content to a bat file.
4. Go to Control Pane\Scheduled Tasks, and click Add Scheduled Task.
5. Following the wizard and at the first stage click Browse to add the
batch file as a scheduled task before the back up work.

Thanks again for your time and cooperation.
Have a nice day! :-)

Best regards,
Gary Wang(MSFT)
<endsnip>

--
Larry
Please post the resolution to your
issue so that others may benefit.


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