Re: ntbackup can't find tapestreamer from commandline/schedular

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Still have to try the tool, but the ntbackup GUI works fine for tape
(the cli/schedular just doesn't). Also backup2file works w/o any problems.

Anyways thx for the re'

Chris Allen wrote:
he program runs fine if we start
the backup from the GUI. However, using the schedular or the commandline
gives an error the device or medium is not found

Hmm how wierd... You might give Peter Weston's mt for Windows tool a
try and see if it can see and operate your tape drive. It's a command
like tape control program that is handy to have around anyways, as it
does useful things like seek to a certain block, eject, rewind,
retension, etc. You can get it here: http://www.holistech.co.uk/sw/mt/mt.html
. Whether it errors or works, that might give you a clue as to what
is going on. I'd also suggest (if you haven't already) making sure
that backup to file works from the command line with ntbackup. If
that works you can probably be safe assuming that there is nothing
wrong with ntbacukp running jobs from the command line. HTH

.

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