Recent content by ChoppinBilly

Thanks, our machine that experienced the problem had VPN software installed using the IPSec driver. At least now I know which machines will clash with the fix.

Safe Mode did not work, could not bring up Add/Remove Programs in either mode. So I pulled up a command prompt and used the following method I found and modified... go into the $NTUninstallKB835732$ directory in WINNT. In the spuninst directory is a file called spuninst.txt. Rename that to...

I ran Windows Update earlier this afternoon on a user's Dell Latitude running 2000 and am now suffering from the same problem. We have ran the same update on other machines this afternoon without problems. I am trying to go through Safe Mode now to uninstall the patch. At the pace it is...

Not arguing the 50+ comments, but I don't see anywhere in this thread that someone is complaining about a single tape giving them problems. The first thing anyone with this problem would do is try a new tape or format an old one. Whether you knew that you could only overwrite 50 times or not...

I replaced my tape drive with an identical one and my backups could again save 33GB+ every night on a 33/66 tape. Having Overwrite Protection set to NONE means that you can immediately overwrite a tape. The other option would be to define how long a tape has to sit after being wrote too...

Thanks, I think you may be right. I have another server with the same tape drive. I think I will swap them and see if the problem follows the hardware. Thanks again.

Thanks, and I absolutely 100% agree with everyone in the world that you may not get any compression. And compression would have been an issue with Truffles, but I am only able to backup 17GB on a 33GB UNCOMPRESSED tape. The tape is 66GB compressed. I only want to backup 25 GB on a 33GB...

Compression is still turned on (Hardware first, then software), but most importantly it is asking for a new tape after saving 17GB. The media is 33Gb uncompressed and 66 compressed. So even without any compression I should be able to get another 16GB on the tape. Very confounding problem.

New or erased tapes don't help, plus I am only getting half the guaranteed amount, not half the compressed amount. I uninstalled BE 8.5 and re-installed. The problem is still there. I am backing up two 34GB logical drives (all the data on those drives = 31GB , I am backing up about 25GB of...

I am having the exact same problem. I am running Backup Exec 8.5 on a 2000 server with a 33/66GB drive. After over a year of backing up 25 -35 GBs consistently on one tape, it is now asking for a 2nd tape after only 16GBs. That is half the guaranteed 33GBs. The backup is set for hardware...