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GA_Dave · 09-20-2011

Backing up files from a NAS to a tape, I got an AOFO intialization failure warning. The whole message is: - AOFO: Initialization failure on: "D:". Advanced Open File Option used: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS). V-79-10000-11235 - VSS S...

GA_Dave · 05-17-2011

Good evening, I made the foolish decision to push Hotfix 150096 without thinking about one minor detail: after upgrading the remote agent, it often asks for a reboot. Tonight is an inconvenient time to reboot most of these servers, so I'm asking for...

GA_Dave · 05-02-2011

Is there a recurring job I can run according to erase everything on a B2D device? I have a recurring erase job set up on all the B2D files that were in the device when I created the erase job, but that doesn't erase the IMG files created by database...

GA_Dave · 01-05-2012

Since there are a couple newer posts, I figured I'd share our extended experience. I set up a recurring erase job to wipe the B2D files before the new job runs (since B2D files maintain the same name when overwritten, a recurring job can be set; IMG ...

GA_Dave · 09-27-2011

Sorry for getting back to you so late. AOFO isn't turned on in the first place. This only happened that one day, so I'm still not sure if there's a problem or if it's related to the other identical errors or what. I just thought I'd throw this out...

GA_Dave · 05-17-2011

Thank you so much! If I could give you a thousand thumbs-ups, I would.

GA_Dave · 05-02-2011

I'll play around with becmd.exe and see what I can do. It's definitely not a fragmentation issue, because we were noticing the slow verifies after the very first overwrite of the B2D folder on a newly created disk. Fragmentation is also the first t...

GA_Dave · 05-02-2011

Because using proper retention periods is not a viable solution; overwriting causes the verification to take too long. We've worked with multiple Symantec support reps who can't figure out why overwriting data in a B2D folder slows the verification ...

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