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powerb
Level 2
14 years ago

loading media

 Hi, I have Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 installed on my server. To make all the backups of the data on the the server I have a tape drive connected to the server. With the Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 I...
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  • CraigV's avatar
    CraigV
    14 years ago

    ...this is how a tape duplicate will work:

     

    1. Drive1 contains tape with data on it that you want to duplicate from.

    2. Drive2 contains blank tape.

    3. You need 2 drives to do this, and if you have a library, another Library Expansion Option license to enable the use of the second drive.

     

    If you try doing this with 1 drive you will get the "Loading media" error...it is going to try loading a tape to write too, but because there is only 1 drive and it is ALREADY in use, it will stay like that!

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CraigV
Moderator
14 years ago

 ...if it is a stand-alone tape drive, it's going to need someone to load a scratch/overwritable tape into the drive before it starts the duplicate.

If you only have 1 drive, this won't work. You'd need 2 stand-alone drives, or a library with 2 drives + the LEO license installed.

 

Laters!