NT Back up

Topic

New Reply

I have a Windows 2003 server running NT Backup for both itself and another server. Recently I have been getting the following error:

… is not a valid drive, or you do not have access

after the first networked directory is backed up.

I cannot find any answers via Google (except one in Spanish that I have not been able to translate successfully).

Any ideas?

Johanna

Reply | Quote

Replies

Have you checked permissions on all the folders being backed up? Any new folders created recently? Any new softwaqre installed?

Joe

--Joe

Reply | Quote

Hi Joe,

Its a backup that has been running well for a number of years. I have recently changed to new tapes, but some new tapes were OK and others get this message.

I found a reference to this error with another backup product and Travan tapes, but my tapes are not those, and I am not using that backup product.

The error does coincide with November’s MS updates so I might investigate down that track.

Johanna

Reply | Quote

Do you run a tape cleaner regularly? Is the failure always with the same tapes?

Joe

--Joe

Reply | Quote

Hi Joe,

Yes, clean regularly, when the tape drive indicates. And no, not same tapes.

Johanna

Reply | Quote

We used to clean only when the drive indicated it but had those errors start to popup (may have been on an older Travan drive also). So, we started cleaning on a regular schedule regardless.

Joe

--Joe

Reply | Quote