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Insufficient online or nearline media is available to start job

Jonathan_Camill
Not applicable

‎09-30-2005 05:32 AM

The following error message is being displayed when testing a backup job:

Media CheckOnline media check : Insufficient online or nearline media is available to start job.Overwrite media check: There is no media online or nearline that can be overwritten or the job has been marked append/terminate.Media check status : Failed

OS: Win 2000 Server SP 4
Backup Exec v9.0 Rev. 4367

All software patches and updates available for version 9 have been installed successfully.

Any ideas?
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Erik_Runeland
Level 2

‎10-03-2005 06:53 AM

What kind of backup is it? I got this problem with a backup-to-disk job when I was running the test job. It turned out that the test job failed because there was no prior backup made to a new backup media set.

It was solved by making a small backup job of only one file to that backup media set and then repeat the test run.

Hope this helps.
/Erik
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Deepali_Badave
Level 6
Employee

‎10-18-2005 01:44 AM

Hello,

If the error message is received during "test run", then it is normal. The
error is generated because the Backup-to-disk Folders have never been used
earlier and there are no files in these directories, therefore there is no
media for the media check to check.
To ensure the functionality of "Backup-To-Disk-Folder" configure a small
backup job, run it and observe the results.

http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/255039.htm

http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/255956.htm

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