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Adrian_M · 10-01-2014

Hi, During the course of our backups, tapes will disappear from the slots in our tape libraries (all 3). If you scan the library, they will show up and get marked as unknown media and put in the "Backup Exec and Windows NT Backup Media" media set. C...

Adrian_M · 06-06-2012

Hi, We have a backup job consisting of a mixture of SQL and Sharepoint backups and the job kicks off at 6pm. The job will always be on hold for about an hour or two before it decides it will load the tape and start doing the backups. There are free t...

Adrian_M · 09-08-2011

Hi, We are doing a backup to disk (NAS) and then to tape using Backup Exec 2010 R2. The NAS is a Thecus 8800PRO NAS with 8 x Western Digital 24x7 raid drives in a RAID 5 config. I created the RAID with the XFS file system and 512kb stripe. We have th...

Adrian_M · 10-02-2014

So these are tapes in the scratch media set that are disappearing from their slot, while the backup is running and using other tapes? Correct What media set are these tapes in after they vanish from the slot? "retired"? You should be getting an a...

Adrian_M · 10-02-2014

Tapes that are staying in the library. We swap the tapes out on a thursday, do a scan and inventory. Full backups run from Friday to when they are done (Tuesday/Wednesday). Come Monday/Tuesday, there will be tapes missing out of the list and BE wo...

Adrian_M · 10-01-2014

I've "updated" the drivers... still 2008 though... and install SP1 see how it goes this weekend. VJ- same thing but it happens after you have already done all that stuff.. you have to do it again throughout the week.

Adrian_M · 10-01-2014

1) Is the media server a VM? If it is, then this configuration is not supported. Physical IBM server 2) What is the OS of the media server? Server 2008R2 3) What are the brand and model of the tape drives? If they have more than one tape drives ...

Adrian_M · 08-17-2014

I get this too... =\

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Tapes randomly disappear from slots in Backup Exec 2014

Tape Loading for SQL Backup

Poor Backup Speeds to Thecus NAS

So these are tapes in the

Tapes that are staying in the

I've "updated" the drivers...

1) Is the media server a VM?

I get this too... =\