We recently had a very large backup job (5+TB) that took several weeks to complete. Something in BE or the library crashed as it was in the final stages, and the job ended up in the history greyed out with a status of "restored".
The tape...
This is a little involved: We need to do an Exchange restore from a backup of a mail server that has been replaced, that was backed up using LTO2 drives that have also been replaced with LTO4 drives.
Our production BE 11d server does n...
After a windows patch and reboot, the drives and library disappeared from our copy of 11d, build 7170 I believe. I ran the hardware wizard, and the drives ( 2 LTO 4's) now have the Symantec drives, but the library ( a Scalar50) is still showing t...
For some reason I have 4 tapes that contain backed up data that are being listed in the "Cleaning Media" media set. I have an urgent restore request for one of these tapes, but the restore does not even attempt to load the tape. How do I get this tap...
Since creating an alturnate set of catalogs was not an option, we shipped the tapes to another location that had a seperate instance of Backup Exec.
We inventoried the tapes and cataloged them on a different server. Some of them cataloged succe...
But isn't that creating 2 sets of catalogs? This is for a long term archive - I can't expect someone to know 2 or 3 years from now that they have swap catalog directories if they need files from October 2011. On top of everything else, a lot of the...
How? To change the driver I need the location of the new driver. I uninstalled the library, rebooted, and it came back with the Quantum Driver installed. There is not a driver to roll back to. Updating the driver results in a message that no bette...
