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mbjoe's avatar
mbjoe
Level 4
14 years ago

Job Stops with "Loading Media" Status, Error 58061

We have a job that has been working fine up until two nights ago. The job seems to run but at some point stops with the following status "Loading Media". No changes have been made to the backup, the ...
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
Backup Exec (media server only)
Windows
  • Ken_Putnam's avatar
    Ken_Putnam
    14 years ago

    The daily has the appen with overwrite while the weekly has overwrite settings

     

    Ahh

    You are appending DIFFs to the same tape.  I can see where that could cause capacity problems.  You may need to change your strategy to two DIFF tapes, say Mon-Tue and Wed-Thu with a weekly FULL

     

    If I'm understanding correctly, the job tonight would write the 10GB of space appending to the end of the tape, then it would ask for another tape to write the remaining 2GB?

    Sounds right

    when would the overwrite actually take place

    When backup Exec detects the end of the tape

    I assumed it would append until it was full, then start overwriting on the same tape over the older backups.

    Nope. if it did that it would essentially quick erase the tape and all the data from the first part of the job would be gone.

     

     

     

     

Ken_Putnam's avatar
Ken_Putnam
Level 6
14 years ago

The daily has the appen with overwrite while the weekly has overwrite settings

 

Ahh

You are appending DIFFs to the same tape.  I can see where that could cause capacity problems.  You may need to change your strategy to two DIFF tapes, say Mon-Tue and Wed-Thu with a weekly FULL

 

If I'm understanding correctly, the job tonight would write the 10GB of space appending to the end of the tape, then it would ask for another tape to write the remaining 2GB?

Sounds right

when would the overwrite actually take place

When backup Exec detects the end of the tape

I assumed it would append until it was full, then start overwriting on the same tape over the older backups.

Nope. if it did that it would essentially quick erase the tape and all the data from the first part of the job would be gone.