Error: The operation failed to acquire the minimum number of drives and media..
Hi there,
I have backup exec 2010 and my one backup keeps failing. I have 15 desktops that are selected. The media set is set to prevent overwrite for 6 days. This is all being backed up to a terastation that has plenty of space. When I try to back it up, I get the following error:
Job ended: Thursday, April 07, 2011 at 8:42:17 AM
Completed status: Failed
Final error: 0xe0000f16 - The operation failed to acquire the minimum number of drives and media needed.
Final error category: Job Errors
For additional information regarding this error refer to link V-79-57344-3862
After much research, everything pointed to my media set. I deleted it and recreated the media set. Didnt work. I tried switching to the 5 day overwrite protection and it failed with the same error. I switched my media set to a media set that has the following settings:
Overwrite protection: 3 weeks
Append period: Infinite - allow append
This worked but the only difference is the overwrite protection period. Any suggestion or Idea of what is causing this? Its not the tera station because the 3 week one works fine, as well as other backups using it. It doesnt seem to be the selections because they worked fine with the weekly one. So it points to the media set but I dont know why its doing that. I need it to run weekly, and not over write for 6 days.
When this job begins: Append to media, terminate job is no appendable media is available
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When there is no appendable media available the job will terminate, due to this setting your jobs are
failing.
When this job begins: Append to media, overwrite job if no appendable media is available
This option 1st checks appendable media if there is no appenable media it starts overwriting the
data whose retention period is over.
