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Win2000 Backup Schedular Fails

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by tsrl

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I have a problem with the built-in backup utility in Windows 2000. Scheduled backups only seem to work when the media is blank. When the media has been given a label the backup fails reporting that no 'unused' media was available. This is supposed to be corrected with the installation of SP2, but I am still getting this happen. If anyone knows how to get Ntbackup working reliably, I would be extremely grateful. Thanks Banerjee....

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by david.jiang

When you define the backup task, you click the "Start Backup", there is 2 options under "if the media already contains backups", you can select what you want, append or replace. then schedule it.
if it does not work, please check your media specialsettings.

by jeff the ref

Hi..

What are you backing up to, is it tape or disk?

Sounds like you are running out of space on the media...if you are appending you will run out of available space at some time....to check this theory run an overwrite job.

Do you have therelevant permissions to run the backup job?

Hope this helps

by tsrl

Hello...
its in dat..

not of space problem....

win2000 backup utility has abug...
microsoft says to load sp2 to solve the issue...but still its not working...

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