We have been using Backup Exec 10d for some time to do our backup tapes for our servers and LIS systems for our two laboratories. Our system involves backing up the machines to a hard drive first, and then backing those backups to a tape. For the past several weeks, we have had no issues, but just recently it has started ejecting the tapes saying that they are full.
We haven't changed anything about the backup jobs lately, and the server backups continue to be about the same size (roughly 70 gb and 140 gb respectively between the two labs). The tapes themselves are 80 gb (which should be enough for each lab's backup to fit on one tape each (with compression), but every day when I come in to check on the status, it ejects the tape asking us to insert a blank volume after backing up to the tape for a few hours. I think it is trying to span multiple volumes, but there should be no reason for it to. What might be the cause of this?
I have already checked to make sure that there is only 1 gb of reserved space, and I have made sure both are set to use hardware compression or else default to software compression. I am not quite sure where to go from here, as this is a new position for me, and I have never used Backup Exec before. Thanks!
Message Edited by PPLLabs on 07-24-200702:14 PM
