Hi All,
I'm not very experienced with Backup Exec and our backups have suddenly started failing. We are using Backup Exec 12.5 on Windows 2008 Server with HP Ultrium 2
We do a weekly backup of the whole server to a set of Week tapes for the month(5 tapes in total) which has been working fine. The backup job is set to overwright the tape each week. However this week it just prompted to insert overwrightable media after running the backup for 3hrs, a full successful backup usually takes 6hrs+.
The backup size hasn't changed dramatically so I don't think its a problem fitting the data on the tape as it usually say something along the lines of media full. Its currently at 226GB, but has successful backups as large as 245GB in the past.
I've even tried to erase a tape and re-do the backup and it still fails.
Please help
Many Thanks
Mat
Log Information - This log was taken from a job that requested overwrightable media after 3hrs and I cancelled the job
Drive and media information from media mount: 19/11/2013 17:06:35
Drive Name: HP 1
Media Label: Week 3
Media GUID: {b8935a15-897d-42f5-973c-0fcd222312b2}
Overwrite Protected Until: 01/01/1900 00:00:00
Appendable Until: 31/12/9999 00:00:00
Targeted Media Set Name: Heathfield - Weekly
All Media Used
Week 3
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Media operation - overwrite.
Compression Type: Hardware [if available, otherwise none]
Encryption Type: None
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AOFO: Started for resource: "C:". Advanced Open File Option used: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).
The snapshot provider used by VSS for volume C: - Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0 (Version 1.0.0.7).
Family Name: "Media created 19/11/2013 17:06:27"
Backup of "C:" as ""
Backup set #1 on storage media #1
Backup set description: "Full Weekly"
Backup Method: Full - Back Up Files - Reset Archive Bit
Backed up 20526 files in 3578 directories.
Processed 10,690,249,786 bytes in 11 minutes and 24 seconds.
Throughput rate: 894 MB/min
Compression Type: Hardware
AOFO: Started for resource: "D:". Advanced Open File Option used: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).
The snapshot provider used by VSS for volume D: - Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0 (Version 1.0.0.7).
Family Name: "Media created 19/11/2013 17:06:27"
Backup of "D:" as ""
Backup set #2 on storage media #1
Backup set description: "Full Weekly"
Backup Method: Full - Back Up Files - Reset Archive Bit
Drive and media mount requested: 19/11/2013 20:17:34
Media mount failed.
User canceled a Physical Volume Library operation.
Backed up 110426 files in 15204 directories.
Processed 215510121405 bytes in 2 hours, 57 minutes, and 23 seconds.
Throughput rate: 1159 MB/min
Compression Type: Hardware
Job ended: 19 November 2013 at 20:19:02
Completed status: Canceled
The job was canceled because the response to a media request alert was Cancel, or because the alert was configured to automatically respond with Cancel, or because the Backup Exec Job Engine service was stopped.
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Backup- D: Media mount failed.
User canceled a Physical Volume Library operation.