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Dave_e
Level 3
10 years ago

Appending to media: "the operation failed to acquire the minimum number of drives and media needed"

I am getting: "the job failed with the following error: the operation failed to acquire the minimum number of drives and media needed" whenever I try to backup to media using the "append to med...
  • pkh's avatar
    10 years ago
    You cannot append to a blank tape. You can only append to takes which already had something on it. What you are experiencing is expected. Why don't you want to overwrite your tapes? Are you aware that BE will only append to the first tape? It will need an overwritable tape for the second and subsequent tapes