Kevin

Your Backup Exec server has lost its head, with and overwrite protection period ended a century ago!

Try restarting the Backup Exec services or redefining the media sets so that something with sense is shown in the log.

Regards

Hi Kevin,

What is the Overwrite Protection period and Append period of the Mdia set to which the tape belongs.

Also what is the option selected uder Tools>Options>Media Management.


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Turn overwrite period to 0 and increment forward by one day everytime you complete a backup until you cover your overwrite period again. Whilst you are doing this you will only be able to put in the tapes you require for that night's backup

Hello Kevin,

Can you Update us on the Issue?


Thanks
Regards

Sorry for the delay responding. My problem has indeed been solved. It was related to overwrite protection on the media set. I do not need to prevent overwrites, so I set the overwrite protect to "0" hours. Strangely, Backup Exec stamps the media Overwrite Protected Until: 12/31/1899 and Appendable Until: 12/30/9999 to get the net effect of 'always allow overwrites'. This had always worked for me with standalone tape drives. When I started using the new loader, it would scan the first slot it came to and sense the overwrite protection set to none and use the tape. Since that tape was always set to be overwritable, there was no reason for Backup Exec to advance the loader to a new slot. My loader has six slots, plus the cleaning cartridge. To resolve, I set the overwrite to 5 days on the media set. This forces the loader to advance appropriately.

Thanks for the assistance.

Kevin