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by corky132

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I'm curently using ntbackup for only one server (Windows 2000 advanced server).. it backs up to a file, and when all is said and done, is about 5 gig. It backs up to a secondary hard drive on the same server, and has the .bkf extention. It seems about the right size, and I get no error logs after it backs up. But when I try to open it, it says "backup device failed". I'm not sure what this means, since I've never had a backup device on that server, just backs up to a file..

any thoughts??

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by mckaytech

There was an issue with reading *.bkf files that was fixed in Windows2000 SP2 so you might start with that.

The other potential cause is that Windows2000 uses Remote Storage Management for backing up to files so there might be a configuration issue there.

As far as the error message itself, to NTBackup, a "backup device" is any supported destination and that could be tape, another hard drive, etc. The message just tells you it couldn't read the backup file.

paul

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