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Hello, Does anyone know if it is possible to change the "Personality" of a DLT/SDLT tape drive? For example I currently have a Compaq branded DLT drive & want to change it back to a Quantum DLT drive. Just flashing the firmware doesnt work (tried it). Any advice is most appreciated.

Hey Guys, I have a DLO question for you: Im trying to use a network share to store the DLO backup files for users. The network share resides on a NetApp FAS270 (NAS device). However when i try to specify this a share on this NAS device DLO asks for a computer name & path. I can enter in the...

Hi Guys, We are migrating Windows 2000 user home directories to a new file server - just wondering what's the best way to copy these folders, is there a way to preserve the existing shares? Please let me know what you guys think. Cheers

Hi, Has anyone come accross a problem where the Remote Agent service on the local Media server stops for no apparent reason?? It happens in the middle of a backup & fails the job. In the windows event log I get a message like "The Backup Exec Remote Agent service terminated unexpectedly".

Hi Guys, I have been having an installation problem with BE9.1. The install wizard seems to run fine but at the end it encounters an error & rolls back the installation. We get the error "Failed to install 3rd party products". Here is the tail of the bkupinst.log 03-30-2004,14:57:34 ...

Hi Guys, We are backing up a NetApp filer (FAS250) with backup exec & the job is failing with the error "Unable to initialize Remote Agent" the remote agent obviously cannot be installed on a NetApp filer but I dont want this error to fail the job. I remember there being a registry hack to...

Does anyone have any recommendations on the best way to Backup a NetApp filer with BE9.1??? Obviously I can install the Remote Agent, should I mount a volume to a Windows box & backup it up that way?? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Hi there, Has anyone managed to sucessfully use the Barcode Rules in BE9.x??? We have an ADIC Scalar 100 library containing both LTO1 & LTO2 drives, I was hoping to configure the Barcode Rules feature to help segregate the 2 different media types. Say the LTO1 tapes us the barcode prefix...

Hey Guys, Does anyone know what exactly happens during a catalog operation?? Does Backup Exec read a catalog that is written to the tape or does Backup Exec read every file on the tape to create the new catalog on disk?? Any info would be appreciated. Cheers

Has anyone come across this error before when backing up Win2k Exchange mailboxes??? "Database or database element is corrupt" I have had a browse in the veitas knowledgebase but the are no technotes on this problem!!! (only 1 refering to wink3 & VSS). Any help / input would be...

Does ARCServe support a tape to tape duplicate? or library to library duplicate?

For all you windowz gurus...... I have a single 80GB drive (actually its hardware raided - but as far as windows is concerned its a single drive) it has been converted into a dynamic disk with 4 partitions however one of the partitions is showing up as "system" volume - I can tell you...

Hi Guys, I have a customer backing up their Exchange 5.5 using the Backup Exec Backup-to-Disk feature. However the backups keep failing with a "Inconsistency was encountered in the storage media" error. It only happens in the Verify stage of the Exchange 5.5 mailbox backups. Has...

Hi guys, For all you Linux guru's out there..... We have an IBM eServer xSeries 345 server that we are trying to install RedHat 7.3 on. The server has an internal LSI logic raid controller which is controlling a mirrored 18gb pair of HDDs, also installed in this server is an Adaptec 39160 scsi...

Hi Guys, Does anybody know what tape format Backup Exec natively uses? It lists all the restorable tape formats on the veritas website but i cannot find what format Backup Exec uses to write to tapes. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers

Hi Guys, Does anybody know how to change the enquiry string & density rate on a SDLT320 drive so that it appears and writes like a SDLT220 drive?? We used to change the eeprom settings on the older DLT drives using "DLTTOOLS" with no worries, but the new SDLT drives are a little...

Hi Guys, I was wondering if anyone knows if the Qlogic HBA 2100(ql2100F) has NDIS supprt?? ie Will it support ip traffic? Any help would be appreciated. Cheers

Hi Guys, Has anyone seen a problem where by Backup Exec scans the barcode labels of the tapes in the library (does not load the tapes into the drive to read the tape label ie: inventory) and reports them as cleaning tapes??

Guys, Im sorry I dont know that much about SQL...... Is it an insainly bad idea to have SQL on one server but the databases residing on a network drive?? Is it even possible?? Any input would be appreciated. Cheers

Hi Guys, I was wondering if you can give me a hand. I have a client running BE 8.6(build3878) in a SAN environment using SSO & a 50+ slot library (ADIC Scalar 100 - LTO). Occasionally a backup will sucessfully finish however the tape will remain in the drive instead of ejecting & cause the...