powerb
14 years agoLevel 2
loading media
Hi,
I have Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 installed on my server. To make all the backups of the data on the the server I have a tape drive connected to the server. With the Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 I...
- 14 years ago
...this is how a tape duplicate will work:
1. Drive1 contains tape with data on it that you want to duplicate from.
2. Drive2 contains blank tape.
3. You need 2 drives to do this, and if you have a library, another Library Expansion Option license to enable the use of the second drive.
If you try doing this with 1 drive you will get the "Loading media" error...it is going to try loading a tape to write too, but because there is only 1 drive and it is ALREADY in use, it will stay like that!