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by vida 2 views

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I'm having the worst time getting a backup. At one time things ran smoothly every night, once Veritas 8.0 was installed, I get an alert stating:
"Please insert overwritable media"....

"Overwritable media...."
I have gone through the steps thatVeritas suggests for this exact alert, to no avail. Any suggests and help IS, as always, greatly appreciated.

Thank you, vida

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by gkeel

I will assume that you are talking about BackupExec for NT. It sounds like when you upgraded the Media Overwrite Protection feature ended up configured wrong or at least differently than you wanted. Overwrite protection was new in version 8.x as Irecall.

Go to Options with the BackupExec and click on the Media Overwrite tab. Then select the type of protection you want, either partial or none. Then you should be able to backup over the media. Note: you may get an alert asking you to verify that you want to overwrite the media. You will need to answer yes to the question.

Also, if that doesn't work, you may try formatting the tape again and then see if the backup will go more than one time on the tape.

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