Re: NTBackup: Strange failure for part of backup

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From: Peter Svensson (peter_at_p2c.se)
Date: 03/04/05 

Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 11:28:26 +0100

Yes, you could be right there. I will have to look it over this weekend,
strange that the tape doesn't use the hardware compression
though...can't remember turning it off.
Where can I check if it's enabled or not?

/Peter
Richard Swingwood wrote:
> I guess that because Backup is running unattended it doesn't prompt for a
> tape change and perhaps after waiting a short time for fresh media it gives
> up - hence the "cant mount media" message.
>
> The COPY that you see is simply the method being used to backup the system
> state - the spacing of the report makes this non-obvious. As you probably
> know a NORMAL backup resets the Archive bit of each file whereas a COPY does
> not.
>
> richard.
>
> "Peter Svensson" wrote:
>
>
>>Pretty sure that the compression is on (will check this weekend).
>>That might solve the problem, but why doesn't it say "Media full"? And
>>what is that strange COPY backup set that is failing? I've not
>>configured anything like that...
>>
>>/Peter
>>
>
>

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