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genexxa, The multi-streaming needs multiple tape drives so you can write to more than one tape at a time. I´ve been using it in BS, where the only problem is that you need to manually balance the job sizes so that they aren´t all going only one library ( I have 3 jobs going, the first one...

Has anyone come across this error in their Activity Log: E4120: Unable to open database.(DATABASE-astpdat, EC=**unable to locate files=s [-46] (Runtime\DBD.C:406 - RUNTIME\DBD.C:406) - C:\Program Files\Computer Associates\Brightstor\EB\Database\astpsdat.300 I have checked in the database...

jankriv, I just finished going through the BS hell trying to get the sql agent to backup a clustered sql db and have managed to get rid of most of the E8604 errors. What it took was an explanation from CA Tech Supp on how BS handles the user credentials. It turns out that for the login to the...

databasebaba, Thanks for the nudge in the right direction. Fortunately, the company, in its infinite wisdom decided to not go for totally centralized backup management. I managed to get it to where I have all the servers using one database server now and will worry about using one admin...

Stacey12, Another thing you may want to try is flashing the BIOS on your SCSI controller. I found that an older 2944-UW we were trying to make work with a Dell 120T Power Vault wouldn't talk to each other even though we couldn't find and errrors in the settings. We did manage to get the card...

cgwillard, There were a couple of details missing: what is you SLA for restoring data if there is a disaster, and what's your budget with which to work ? The rule of thumb is that data restoration takes twice as long as the backup, so if you have an SLA that says 8 hours down time max, then...

triton21, In case you hadn't tried the obvious (having made the same mistake myself), have you checked the AS account ? If it's not using the administrator account then it may be a permissioning problem. Check the ARCserve Server Admin under the Admin: ARCserve System Account. If it's not...

mfranco, You will need to check the activity log for related messages and then the event viewer logs for the NT server to see if there are any clues there. Based on what you have posted to me it will likely be a permission problem, so check what user account the universal agent is set to use...

Rules2liveby, Finally figured it out: needed to use a "5 day rotation" scheme. Knew I had seen it somewhere , but just couldn't remember... D.

Rules2liveby, Thanks for the suggestions. It seems a little odd that ARCServe could manage this but not BS... D.

Greetings, Does anyone know how to make BrightStor not format a tape and changing the name before writing to it? I have been trying to setup a simple manual tape rotation that use the Days of the week as the tape labels. I need the tape labels so that other users can change tapes only and not...

Mohammed, With which account are you logged into the server? I've had challenges with setting up a new user account when I tried to do it while not logged in as an administrator to the server, and if the caroot password wasn't accepted by BS. Check for the authsetup.exe in the EB directory...

Ok, here's a cute one: Installed BrightStor on serveral servers, each as an stand alone since several were in different NT Domains. Network changes, so I start adding servers to one domain, so I can manage them from one server console. I setup an NT admin account to use instead of caroot on...

wfglover, You can change the caroot password using authsetup in the EB directory: C:>authsetup /p <password> Then use ca_conf to restart the services and then it should allow you to use the ca_auth functions after that. D.

Mohammed, Got another one for which you might have an educated guess: I've been trying to setup a new user account to use instead of caroot on the primary server for the EB domain, and keep getting &quot; failed ... reason : No permission for this operation&quot; for everything except...