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by mdfreeman

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I am trying to run an unattended backup on an SBS2003 system using NTBackup. It runs, but there is nothing in the logs, it's just blank. I have recreated the backup routine, I have recreated the rsm database, it runs if you do it manually. It gives no error messages. If you look in the scheduled tasks, where you would normally see the media name, there is an alphanumeric string:
00eda47b-fa23-478f-ab2e-f98b22ff2ef9
Everything else seems to be normal, but it won't work. I'm at a complete loss.

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by cg it

won't work meaning what?

what type of backup, full, incremental, differential?

what media?

did you verify media has no data on it?

by triathlete1981

of media, make sure you're using the right media size. before i came on board here, we were using .5 gig tapes in a 4gig drive and the system was trying to save to them as if they were 4 gig tapes.

by mdfreeman

The backup type is a full backup. The media is a Sony 80/208 tape. This backup was running fine until the backup job was accidently deleted. When I recreated the backup is when these problems started. Sorry, should have included that in the original post.

by mdfreeman

These tapes are the ones that are verified to run in this Sony drive. It's a brand new drive, just replaced it less than a week ago.

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