Veritas problem

Hey guys,

I need some help with my veritas backup. I am running veritas media server 9.1 and administration Console 9.1. My server is running Windows 2003 server. I keep getting this message: Please remove media from the drive. The tape drive then kicks the tape out. I am using brand new tapes and I have tried three different tapes and it keeps happening. Also, the back-up failed last night and I get this error message: 0F0: Initialization failure on: "Shadow?Copy?Componets". Advanced Open File Option used: YES.
0F0: Snapshot error (0x17): Data error (cyclic redundancy check).

Please help: Thanks !

taskwon

 

It sounds like you have a problem with the volume shadow service running on your 2003 server. Go to Administrator tools, Services and look at the Volume shadow. Is it started? set to Manual? If it is on Manual I would set it to Automatic and make sure it is running. What that service does is allow the Backup program to take a snapshot of what ever you are backing up so the files, or what ever you are backing up can still be accessed. Like your whole Active Directory Schema, public folders or Mailboxes. If you still have issues I might consider using NTBACKUP.exe. It's Free, comes with every server and does just what it is supposed to do and it is designed for M$ products. Just my 2 cents. Oh ya, does Veritas support volume shadow? Look into that also.

Good luck