Hello: I have an active backup job running that has a Question mark in yellow along with the "Running" message. I see the job's byte count increasing, and I am wondering what the question mark significance is. Any help will be appreciated. Thank yo...
Hello: There are times when the tape remains in the drive when failed jobs occur rather than being returned to the robotic library's magazine. I have BE's "Eject media when job completes" enabled. I have tried using BE's Unlock option, and have tri...
Hello: I started using Sony DDS4 media and have been getting the following failure when running backup job with new tapes and with long erases: Job started : Sunday, June 01, 2008 8:04:43 PMJob ended : Sunday, June 01, 2008 10:31:11 PMFinal...
Hello: When I insert new, blank media into an 8-slot Robotic Library, and then run the Inventory on the library, the new media's Media Label is "?" and the Description is "(Unrecogized media)". I have BE's Tools -> Options -> Media Management's "Medi...
This message was also posted to the Hardware and Tape Driver forum. Hello all: I have a Sony TSL-11000 SCSI robotic tape drive. Recently there have been times when an error occurs, such as: Storage device "DELL 1" reported an error on a request to r...
Hello Ken: After I ran the Inventory job, I ran my backup job, which is simply one folder in my C:\I386 folder. I am prompted: Please insert overwritable media into the robotic library using the import command.Overwritable media includes scratch, bl...
I have an update on this. Last night I ran a test backup job using 3 Sony tapes and one Fujifilm tape. All jobs ran fine. Today I checked the backup job and it failed, with the below error that resembles the long erase error. Error category : B...
Ken: If the robotic library is partition, would I have to change the partition to use that specific tape? If not, what steps would I use to specify that specific robotic library slot? Thanks. Mark
When I rebooted the server over the weekend from the stuck tape after Thu's night's backup, the library was showing as Offline in Backup Exec. The server was rebooted this morning, and it still remains Offline. Any suggestions why this would occur ...
A tape remained in the drive after a failed backup last night from the same error. The tape was not moved back into the magazine. I tried the unlock process twice like you suggested, but no luck. I also used the lock process, followed by two unloc...
