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Re: Recycling windows backup tapes into backup exec 9.1
Thanks for the tip, I'll try that (it's at a remote site and my contact is away from his desk right now, so I'll try it here in a few) Some more information if anyone is interested... The alerts go something like this in the alerts tab: (10:15 Job Runs) 10:15AM Media Unrecognized 10:16AM Please remove media from the drive 10:20AM Please remove media from the drive 10:20AM The device is not ready I'm assuming this means what I said in my original post, that it doesnt recognize the tape, ejects it, the job keeps trying to use the drive with no tape in it then gives the 'device not ready' alert. Any additional insight?238Views0likes0CommentsRecycling windows backup tapes into backup exec 9.1
This may be an easy answer... However, I'm pretty new to BackupExec... We just upgraded a server from Windows NT backup to BackupExec 9.1... We have old tapes that have data (that can be overwritten) that were written with NTBackup headers... When backupexec loads the tape, it says 'unrecognized media' and EJECTS the tape. This leaves me with two questions... A) How do I prevent it from ejecting the tape when it's detected as unrecognized B) How can I get it to automatically reformat the tape into a backupexec format? Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!238Views0likes5Comments