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john10
Level 6
11 years ago

NDMP Backup is Failed with 99 status code

Hello All, We are running NBU 7.0 on win-2k8 Master and Media Server 7.0 on 2k8 and we configured NDMP Backup for Media server, previously backup is running fine for "vol" but suddenly after writi...
7.1.x and Earlier
Backup and Recovery
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Windows Server (2003-2008)
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    mtaormina
    11 years ago

    This message is always a red flag for me:

    5/12/2014 11:22:49 AM - Error bptm(pid=9556) write error on media id 7077L5, drive index 0, writing header block, 0

    Usually this means that the write protect switch is set ON for that tape media.

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john10
Level 6
11 years ago

Hello All,

Thanks for your valuable suggestions and now the backup is working fine after changing the new set of tapes.