Windows 2000 Backup 1

[chrisk96x]

This is driving me nuts. I cannot get Windows 2000 backup to work. All I have is a single bay, one at a time tape drive and I'd like to make daily backups rotating one set of five tapes. I don't need jukebox capability or multi-location management.

I can't get past the "No unused media was available" error in the backup log file.

I goto RSM and load and prepare my tapes just like it says in Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - Q241007,

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q241007&

Same error.

Does anyone have a simple 1 2 3 you're done and it works procedure for doing this?

Thanks for reading.

ChrisK

 

[buddafish]

i found this routine to work for me:
1. start ntbackup
2. go to restore tab
3. expand the node for my tape drive
4. right click the label corresponding to the tape
that i wanted to re-use and choose 'delete from system'
5. then i would put the media in the drive and prepare it
as well as label it
6. and choose the default option on the pop-up that 'new
media has been detected'
7. choose what to backup and schedule it
8. and now the backup will write to this tape.
9. not very automated, eh? but it will work and you can
restore from backup

in short, many people have had the same issues with the w2k backup program. lots of headaches i can attest to. in the end, we spent the money and purchased brightstor for 2000 server and all is well again.

scottie

 

[chrisk96x]

After fooling around with this for awhile I thought I'd try something.

I copied the ntbackup.exe from an NT 4.0 system into my Windows 2000 PC. I put it in a folder called backup. To make things work I also had to copy the file ntctl3d.dll into the same folder. I then set up a .cmd file and used the at.exe program to schedule a backup (make sure everything points to the folder where ntbackup.exe, version 4.0 resides).

Works like a charm with no messy RSM problems. It creates a "low end" solution for all the people who don't need the bells and whistles (and problems) the Windows 2000 backup program provides.

One note: You may get an "NT Compression Error" in the log file when you goto restore files backed up this way. It doesn't seem to cause any problems however.

ChrisK96X

 

[IanCorst]

I tried gave up and bought Backup Exec.