RE: SBS 2003 Backup problems

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Hello Customer,

Thank you for posting here.

Firstly, please make sure that you installed the latest device driver of
the Tape Device.

RSM creates a database it uses in talking to a tape. It is possible that
something in that database is corrupt. Please do the following to rebuild
that database.

1. Start the Computer Management tool, double-click "Services and
Applications", and then click Services.

2. Locate and change the startup type from Automatic to Disabled), and then
restart the computer.

3. Start Windows Explorer, open the %SystemRoot%\System32\Ntmsdata folder,
and then rename the existing files in this folder so that they have an
..old file extension, or copy the files to a different folder.

4. Restart the Removable Storage service (or change the startup type from
Disabled to Automatic), and then restart the computer.

For detailed steps, please refer to:

235032 Problems with a Damaged Removable Storage Manager Database
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=235032

Then, please check if the issue is fixed. If not, I suggest that we apply
the hotfix in the following article in which, there is latest RSM files:

895173 You may not be able to use the Backup utility to perform a backup
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=895173

If the issue persists, please kindly help me collect some information for
further investigation:

1. Save application event log and system event log as evt files on
problematic machines and send to my mailbox: v-terliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

2. Please gather and send me the entire NTBackup log file for further
analysis.

C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Windows NT\NTBackup\data

Hope these steps will give you some help.

Thanks and have a nice day!

Best regards,

Terence Liu(MSFT)

Microsoft CSS Online Newsgroup Support

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| Subject: SBS 2003 Backup problems
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| The ntbackup application has recently begun to give me problems, in
| that a backup always fails with the error: "No free media available
| with the selected backup type". I am using a Hewlett Packard DDS-4 SCSI
| Tape drive, and have selected the backup type as DDS-4, new tape, to
| overwrite existing media as usual.
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| Immediately after the error, an event log is created containing the
| message: "RSM cannot manage library CdRom0. The database is corrupt."
| Somehow I think it is trying to backup to Cd-Rom.
|
| Any help would be appreciated.
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|

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