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I am having trouble with a client's backup. They are using NTbackup in Win2K SBS(SP1 & 2) with a Sony SDT-9000 DDS3 drive. Some nights the backup runs fine, but other it fails saying there is no free tape available. When I check the tape is says it is free/unknown. When I try to prepare it again it says it is read-only. The read-only tab is not open. I have tried using a new tape. It prepares OK, but the next day it was saying it was unknown again.
Any Ideas? Thanks in advance,
Mike
use the /mu switch at the end of the command line string. this will force the data to write to the tape.
Storm,
Thanks for the reply. Do you mean /um (unmanaged)? If so I already have that.
The problem seams to be that Removable Storage doesn't recognise the tape rather that it thinks it's the wrong one.
your right, my dyslexia must have kicked in. anyway here's a kb article i found that may help you out:
<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q239/8/92.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0&qry=Q239892&rnk=1&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_ SRCH&SPR=IIS" target="_blank">Q239892</a>