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Veritas 8.5 Error: The semaphore timeout period has expired.

Phil_Rienstra
Not applicable
I am running Veritas Backup Exec 8.5 on a windows 2000 server. For the last 3 runs, the following error has been popping up:




======================================================================
Job server:
Job name:
Job started: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 at 1:27:02 AM
Job type: Backup
Log file: BEX43.txt
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Drive and media information from media mount:
Changer Name:
Drive Name: QUANTUM 1
Media Slot: 0
Media Cartridge Label: DLT000005
Targeted Media Set Name: ======================================================================
Job Operation - Backup
Media operation - overwrite.
Hardware compression enabled.
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Media Name: "Consolidated "
Backup of "D: Data"
Backup set #1 on storage media #1
Backup set description: "Consolidated Insurance"
Backup Type: NORMAL - Back Up Files - Reset Archive Bit
Backup started on 6/21/2005 at 1:27:16 AM.
The item \Data\Exchange\priv1.edb in use - skipped.
The item \Data\Exchange\priv1.stm in use - skipped.
The item \Data\Exchange\pub1.edb in use - skipped.
The item \Data\Exchange\pub1.stm in use - skipped.

Storage device "QUANTUM 1" reported an error on a request to write data to media.

Error reported:
The semaphore timeout period has expired.

^ ^ ^ ^ ^



Backup completed on 6/21/2005 at 4:26:02 AM.
Backed up 144677 files in 7491 directories.
4 items were skipped.
Processed 24,151,733,782 bytes in 2 hours, 58 minutes, and 46 seconds.
Throughput rate: 128.8 MB/min
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Job ended: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 at 4:48:21 AM
Job completion status: Failed
======================================================================




Any ideas???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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Ken_Putnam
Level 6
See

http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/190598.htm