Veritas Backup Failure

Neded some help! We are using Backup Exec version 9.1 on a Windows Server 2003 environment. For the last 3 days the backup has failed due to a corrupt catalog. According to Veritas, this can be rectified by re-cataloging the media, which, after 4 hours yesterday, completed. The backup failed again last night. Help! Does anyone have any ideas whatsoever? We have the full monthly backups to run tonight and cannot afford for these to fail!!!!

 

Corrupted data, can often mean that the data on the medium is corrupt (Obviously). My suggestion is to get a tape head cleaner, and use it.

Have you tried another tape?

Test it afterwards too, make sure that after you have got over this problem, you can actually restore!

 

The actual data that is corrupt though, is a Veritas Catalog. I am not an expert with this software by any means, but why would this corrupt data that is actually on the backup server itself, prevent the backing up of the other servers? Do you know what these catalogs are for? Also, the big problem is, I am doing this remotely, the site is halfway up the country and the guy who would normally be doing this is on holiday, typical eh?

 

LOL

I am no expert either, we all guess together.



But the catalog is an index. It's the first thing read. I presume it was doing a verification? Or did it fail during the backup? If the catalog is the first thing it reads, then there’s a good chance everything else is ****ed too?



I will look into this more tonight, I must dash now (work…) I need to look into this some more to find out why the other three are not backing up?!? If you find out without me, please post what the answer was

VERITAS SUPPORT IS VERY GOOD... try calling them?


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Well, thanks for your help. What I did in the end was just moved the corrupt catalog out of the folder and elsewhere and it backed up fine. Thanks again.