Anyone? Bueller? After lots of fiddling, still no success.
Can do the backups manually, but the batchfile tanks. I've even regenerated the .bks file. Kurt On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 19:05, Kurt Buff <kurt.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > All, > > In my UK office, I've got three servers - a DC, a file server and an > E2k3 server - all are SP2 R2. There is no AV running on the Exchange > server. > > The file server has an external LTO3 tape drive attached to it, and > for about a year it was working just fine pulling backups from the > Exchange server - I installed the ESM on it for just this purpose. The > DC is doing a system state backup to a share the file server. > > However, the NTBackup batch job that I'm running to pull the Exchange > backup to the file server's tape drive has recently stopped working . > I was able to get it going again last month by rebooting the Exchange > server, but it was failing with this error message: > > The requested media failed to mount. The operation was aborted. > The operation was ended. > > I am able to pull a backup by manually starting the wizard as the same > user that the scheduled batch file was using and specifying the > Exchange server's storage group. But when running as a batch file, > whether launching the batch file manually or as a scheduled task, it > fails to pull the backup of the Exchange server. The batch file backs > up the entire file server first, then goes to the Exchange server. > > I just tried launching the batch file again, and the error message I > got this time is different, but still a failure: > > The network disk drive has stopped responding. Backup set aborted. > > > I'm not finding anything on google, either - most were regarding SBS, > and pre-SP1 at that, and the rest don't seem to fit my circumstances. > > > Any help much appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Kurt > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
