cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

The drive hardware is offline!

Guy_Sears
Level 3
I am attempting a disk to disk backup. Both disks are in the same server. It begins running at over 200mb/min and slows down to less than 90mb/min and eventually I get the

The drive hardware is offline!

Please confirm that the drive hardware is powered on and properly cabled.

error.

I am using Veritas drivers, have updated the BE as much as I know how. This seems to be the case with any backup job I try to run. I can inventory successfully.

I am also using a Quantum dlt8000 autoloader and get similar errors and my jobs are not finishing.

Ideas?
1 REPLY 1

Deepali_Badave
Level 6
Employee
Hello,

What is the disk space size and the actual backup job size?

Please verify the event logs for any error messages.

Regards,