Re: NTBackup Problems

From: Pegasus \(MVP\) (I.can_at_fly.com)
Date: 09/02/04


Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 22:44:32 +1000


"Sarah Kingswell" <skingswell@donotreply.com> wrote in message
news:eUKKuROkEHA.2696@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> I am having a few issues with a Travan 40 Tape Unit and NTBackup on a
> Windows 2003 Server. It appears that the backup never completes and stops
> when approx 20GB of Data has been backed up to Tape. I am not sure if
this
> is a limitation of the Travan 40, which I believe will backup 40GB of
> compressed Data. Do I need some other software that supports software
> compression or should I be able to backup 40GB with NTBackup with Hardware
> Compression enabled?
>
>
>

Maybe hardware compression is not turned on - it's a switch
in your backup commend. I suggest you back up 15 GBytes
while testing. If it works then you obviously have a capacity issue.



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