Windows 2000 backup

[Mike Turley]

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

[storm]

use the /mu switch at the end of the command line string. this will force the data to write to the tape.

[Mike Turley]

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.

[storm]

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>