I am using Backup Exec v10.1 and have 6 250GB USB external drives (M,T,W,Thursday,Friday1,Friday2). Up until two weeks ago this approach worked flawlessly (roughly 2 months). Then it suddenly started failing to recognize when a new drive was plugged in.
Here's the process... each day the appropriate USB drive is plugged in and powered on. The drive auto-recognizes in Windows and auto-maps to a pre-determined drive letter. That's it. Each of those devices was setup as a Backup-to-Disk Device (not B2D Folder).
Now, although Windows recognizes the device, Veritas starts the backup job and says to insert media even though the drive is there. The only way around this is to restart the media service for Veritas (which in turn also restarts the backup engine, etc.). There weren't any updates to the server in the past couple of weeks - any idea why this is happening? What can be done to resolve this without restarting the services each day?
On a seperate note - the Device Priority option in the Device Pool does not save. I know this is a reported bug that I've seen in other forum messages. Is there any indication when this will be resolved?
Thanks,
Chris