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NT Backups with BackupExec 7.2

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by sblades 1 view

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May be the wrong section to post this, but I have a client with NT 4 and a WangDat 0 4mm tape drive. They do a full backup on Sunday and incrementals on weekdays. The incrementals work fine, but lately the full weekly fails. Sometimes says device I-O error and sometimes says to put in recognizable media. We've used two new tapes, cleaned the drive. Perplexed because the incrementals work fine and the full ones fail. Any ideas? Thanks.

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by sgt_shultz

what are the characteristics of the media groups each job (full and incremental). maybe the tapes aren't 'expired' and eligible for rewrite...

by sblades

Thanks, it was a combination of someone setting "append" on the software (we overwrite everytime) and it didn't like that, as well as needing to being cleaned vigorously!

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