Backup Woes Continue :(

osaddictosaddict London, UK
edited April 2008 in Science & Tech
Brand new tape drive on a brand new (well 3 weeks old) install of sbs2003, with brand new tape media.

Does all the backing up, then dies...
Backup started on 4/7/2008 at 12:31 PM.
The requested media failed to mount. The operation was aborted.
The operation was ended.
Backup completed on 4/7/2008 at 3:16 PM.
Directories: 9010
Files: 63757
Bytes: 48,022,597,730
Time: 2 hours, 44 minutes, and 47 seconds

The operation did not successfully complete.

Can anyone help me out here - I need to sort this quickly, I was convinced it was the drive at fault before, and I still think it was, based on this error I received using it last week:
Error: The device reported an error on a request to read data from media.
Error reported: Bad data.
There may be a hardware or media problem.

However, new drive, new media and backup problems = bad :(

Comments

  • CycloniteCyclonite Tampa, Florida Icrontian
    edited April 2008
    Have you updated to the latest firmware?

    What brand/model drive?
  • osaddictosaddict London, UK
    edited April 2008
    Right, silly as it sounds I'm pretty sure it was down to media space - the error according to Google basically means your outta space - and since the backup ran for around nearly 3 hrs that kinda makes sense.

    I did a manual backup of all the 'file server' drives and the inetpub folder and it worked fine.

    I just have to figure out (again!) the interaction between ntbackup and the small business server backup window - before our server rebuild I had a backup in place which just did those folders I mentioned above, but which could be monitored from the sbs server management backup section...
  • CycloniteCyclonite Tampa, Florida Icrontian
    edited April 2008
    Doh! I'm not really familiar with NT Backup. I use Symantec BackupExec and Brightstor ArcServe Backup. Wouldn't it request a second tape if the first one fills?
  • osaddictosaddict London, UK
    edited April 2008
    It's a pretty basic app, from my reading it can span multiple tapes but only if its connected to a tape drive which does it automatically. So perhaps it detects its just a 1 tape drive and throws that error.

    Anyhow, I've sorted it now...

    Basically the 'nice' interface in server management is a really restricted way of creating the backup - very difficult to choose much really - its basically all done for you with little choice.

    However, it simply creates a .bks script which NTBackup uses, so I opened NTBackup and opened this script and changed the properties here, which so far looks to be working.

    Scheduled for 9pm tonight, so tomorrow morning will be the moment of truth :)
  • CycloniteCyclonite Tampa, Florida Icrontian
    edited April 2008
    Yay! Hope it works. Backups are great when they work. But when something breaks, they can be a huge headache.
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited April 2008
    What size are your media?
  • CycloniteCyclonite Tampa, Florida Icrontian
    edited April 2008
    Kwitko wrote:
    What size are your media?

    Isn't that kind of personal?
  • osaddictosaddict London, UK
    edited April 2008
    Well, I'm pleased to report the backup has worked two days running now - just another example of Microsoft trying to be too 'n00b' - i.e. prevent you from changing anything, however, working when I edited the script through NTbackup.
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