A couple of things I remember, it may be of some help. We was getting an
error using NTBackup with SBS2003 which stopped the tape from mounting.
This ended up being a download from Microsoft, last week I could have told
you the specific KB article. This week I removed all the download files
from this machine and I can't remember which one of the many KB updates
installed is the one. But I'm sure you could locate the update somehow if
it applies.
The next problem we had was because the server we bought had one drive,
there was and still is an issue with including the exchange backup facility
in the job, something to do with SBS and exchange running from the same
drive. The error was something along the lines of unable to mount the
message store as it is already in use.
The last problem we had was due to the tapes not being classed as free so I
had to create a batch file to get around this. The batch file is below.
rsm.exe refresh /LF"Hewlett Packard DDS4 drive"
sleep 30
for /f "Tokens=1-4 Delims=/ " %%i in ('date /t') do set dt=%%i-%%j-%%k-%%l
for /f "Tokens=1" %%i in ('time /t') do set tm=-%%i
set tm=%tm::=-%
set dtt=%dt%%tm%
ntbackup backup "@C:\chris.bks" /n "%computername%-%dtt%" /d "daily %dtt%"
/v:yes /r:no /rs:no /hc:on /m normal /j "daily %dtt%" /l:f /p "4mm DDS" /UM
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Subject: RE: [NF] SBS2003 Backup
Hmm, yes. I have had a couple of those before, but usually I can tell
it to just do the backup.
Tristan
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Posted At: 24 July 2006 16:34
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Subject: RE: [NF] SBS2003 Backup
Is the tape failing to mount because it thinks the media is not free?
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Sent: 24 July 2006 16:11
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Subject: [NF] SBS2003 Backup
Hi All,
Currently having some fun trying to get the backups working on a SBS2003
server.
At the moment, I think the issue is 2 fold...
1) The drive is starting to fail because occasionally the tape cannot be
mounted and thus the backup aborts.
2) NTBackup could be having fits. It complains about Volume Shadow
Copy.
When we installed the tape drive, we just started using NTBackup. We
didn't bother with Tapeware which came free with the device. Does
anybody use Tapeware?
Cheers
Tristan Leask
Software Developer
Marine Software Ltd
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www.marinesoftware.co.uk
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