Win2K Backup nightmare. Pls help, losing hair fast...

[Magicthyse]

Win2K Backup is driving me doolally. Why did they have to bring in this Removable Storage? All I want to do is slap some stuff down on tape. The hoops I have to jump thru...

I think I (intentionally) erased some tapes. Not entirely sure what I did, but when I insert the tapes in question, they're recognized as \free media\unrecognized and not \free media\4mm DAT.

I can't backup to the tapes, and Windows Backup doesn't see them. When I try to Prepare the tapes, Removable Storage tells me that the tapes are write protected (they aren't). How can I get these 10 tapes back into doing backups? I hate to think I've just thrown 10 hardly used tapes - $150 - down the plughole.

I've looked at MS's explanation of Removable Storage, but my head hurts.

Drive in question is a Sony SDT-9000. Server is an HP E800 P3/933 with stock dual U2SCSI, 512MB of RAM running Win2K Server SP2 SR1.

This is my home-play server. i.e. contains no work stuff. My home-work server uses different tapes (DDS4) and I'm wary about sticking DDS3 tapes in a DDS4 autoloader to test.

I've recently moved all my MP3's and some porn to this server. I need to backup, as it now contains arguably the most important data I keep at home

 

[Magicthyse]

bump

 

[gil11542]

I've recently moved all my MP3's and some porn to this server. I need to backup, as it now contains arguably the most important data I keep at home

LOL

Hope you get it fixed

 

[DAM]

Please do not use window's backup crap, to my knowledge it doesnt work well, or at all. try something like veritas software or i think even norton has something (i am not sure on this) regardless, the only thing i have been able to make win2k adv servers backup, is it's system files, and that was moving it to another drive on another server.




dam()

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: DAM
Please do not use window's backup crap, to my knowledge it doesnt work well, or at all. try something like veritas software or i think even norton has something (i am not sure on this) regardless, the only thing i have been able to make win2k adv servers backup, is it's system files, and that was moving it to another drive on another server.

Agree, Windows Backup sucks, get different software.

 

[RustyNale]

I encountered that problem first time we used win2k server's backup program. If I remember correctly, what I had to do was to run a short manual backup on each tape so that win2k would now recognize it. Then I added it to the media pool. Give that a try, let me know if it works.