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Backup to Disk Media Not Valid

saberman
Level 4

Windows XP SP3 With all Patches

Backup Exec 9.1 with all service packs

I created a B2D device and then setup a series of backup jobs to do a full backup the 1st of the month, an incremental backup daily and a fuller incremental backup the last day of the month.

The jobs ran for the month of December.  Unfortuanately, I set the maximum file size to 100GB and the december run topped out at 97GB.

I then setup a duplicate to disk job to take the 97GB file as input and output to a B2D device with a 50 GB maximum so I could then back up the files to a Blue-Ray DL without having to span disks.

When I ran the duplicate to disk job it failed after 21GB with a error message saying "Catalog query for next media failed."  Now the first backup set in the file was only 63 MB.  The second one was 34GB according to the backup job that created it.  21GB would have been about 2/3 through the second backup set.

I tried run a catolog job against the media but it ended almost immediately saying it was successful but show 0 for number of files, bytes, etc.

Is there any way to recover from this or have I lost all of my December 2010 backups?

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saberman
Level 4

I am able to restore the files in the first two backup sets for a total of about 34GB so the backup file appears to be alright.  Why can't I run a duplicate to disk job from it?