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Microfiche's avatar
Microfiche
Level 3
11 years ago

New Media error message after SP2

Using Backup Exec 2012 v14 rev 1798

After my scheduled backups run, I have set my RDX catridge to eject, to make exchanging cartrdiges in the morning possible without starting up Backup Exec and ejecting the cartridge from the software. I am not able to eject via hardware - I assume Backup Exec disables this functionality.

Since I installed SP2 a few days ago, I am getting a media error message "The disk is offline" at some point after the backups have run. There are no pending actions, I assume Backup Exec is just polling the RDX and seeing that there is no cartridge in it. Is there some way I can disable this error notification, without disabling any other media error messages? I do want to know if a media error occurs during a backup, however I don't need to know that there is no cartridge in the bay if there is no backup running.

2012
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
Configuring
Error messages
Windows Server (2003-2008)
  • Moe_Howard's avatar
    Moe_Howard
    11 years ago

    If you do not have the Dell RD1000 Utility software installed, then ejecting the media through software or by pressing the button could fail. I've seen the eject work then all of a sudden stop working regardless if it was BE trying to eject the media or if I was tryig to eject the media in Windows Explorer.

    Do yo have the RD1000 Utility software installed?

    If not, then you may download it from Dell?

     

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  • lmosla's avatar
    lmosla
    Level 6
    11 years ago

    Hello,

    This has been seen to occur following Backup Exec Database maintenance.  I recommend initiating a support case to gather the logs and evidence needed.

     

  • Colin_Weaver's avatar
    Colin_Weaver
    Moderator
    11 years ago

    If you use Backup Exec 2012 to protect Exchange and send this backup to RDX with eject media at end of job set then you need to be aware that we will spawn a separate Catalog job after the end of the Exchange backup job finishes that expects to be able to find the mounted media. If this Catalog job does not find the media it needs because you ejected it then you might see some odd alerts from the system.

     

    Note I am not sure that this is your probelm as your alert message is not the one we would expect but it is something you need to be aware of if you are ejecting media with Backup Exec 2012 and Exchange backups.

     

    Fix is either stop eject the media against Exchange jobs - or use a reg key to make BE 2012 handle Exchange Catalogs like BE 2010 used to.

    http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH188863

  • Microfiche's avatar
    Microfiche
    Level 3
    11 years ago

    I spent a long time with Symantec support and the answer seems to be that this is a new "feature" and can't be disabled. I either disable alerts on all media errors, or live with getting a media error at some point after the last job completes every day telling me that there is no media in the bay that the last job ejected the cartridge from.

    We have no Exchange server, and this message can happen as much as 5 hours after the completion of the last backup job.

  • Microfiche's avatar
    Microfiche
    Level 3
    11 years ago

    I am using a Dell RD1000 PowerVault bay.

    I suppose that could be another workaround, though I prefer the disk ejecting. Should I be able to manually eject the RDX cartridge? It used to work in an earlier version of Backup Exec and stopped in this version, so I assumed it was a "feature" to lock the cartridge in.

  • Moe_Howard's avatar
    Moe_Howard
    Level 4
    11 years ago

    If you do not have the Dell RD1000 Utility software installed, then ejecting the media through software or by pressing the button could fail. I've seen the eject work then all of a sudden stop working regardless if it was BE trying to eject the media or if I was tryig to eject the media in Windows Explorer.

    Do yo have the RD1000 Utility software installed?

    If not, then you may download it from Dell?

     

  • Dell_SamL's avatar
    Dell_SamL
    Level 3
    11 years ago

    Hello Microfiche,

    Here is a link to download the RD utility.  http://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER22465M/1/R312075.exe once you have the utility installed you will need to run 2 other files to ensure that the eject works as it should.  The two files are enablebesteffort.bat & setupeject.exe.  the files can be found in the following location.

    Enable best effort.bat

    Program Files (x86)\RD1000\Service

    Setup eject.exe

    Program Files (x86)\RD1000

    Please let us know if you have any other questions.