Our office is running a Windows 2003 SBS from Dell. Attached to that is a Dell PowerVault and we are running BackupExec 11d. This unit is an LTO2 which is capable of 200G/400GB.
We have daily backups which are scheduled Monday through Friday and start at 10pm. Our office closes at 5pm, so nobody is ever here during that time. We usually backup about 80 to 85 gigs of data.
When I come in the next morning I startup another computer in our office, which has the software to check backup. If backup is successful I'll swap the tape out with the one for that night.
Sometimes the backup will be "Successful" for awhile.. we might get 2 weeks of good backups or 2 months. But then a lot of times backup says "Loading Media" or "Queued". It seems random when it happens and I don't know what is causing it. I just hit Cancel, let it schedule for the next night, and pray.
We've contacted our network consultant. He can remotely login to our server if we give him control. I asked him if there's any magic he runs behind the scenes to get it working. He says no. He just hits cancel like I do. I did notice he ran an inventory also.
Something I have noticed.. let's say our office is closed one day, such as Friday, I'll come in Monday and cancel Friday's backup we weren't there for. The backup seems to not want to get "back on track" of doing "Successful" backups.
The tapes are a few years old. I thought maybe they're going bad so I bought a brand new set of media. We have them labeled by day. I thought I'd keep a record of the old tapes when backup doesn't happen and eventually replace them. So, last week I started using a new Wednesday tape. That backup did not happen. It says "Failed", which is rare. We usually only get the message "Loading Media" or "Queued". That was a brand new tape. This Wednesday backup was "Successful" on that new tape, though.
Any help is appreciated.. thanks.. Shawn
