Error 211

[Chief Technician]

I wrote a script that should be recycling a backup set that is being written to the Catalogs folder on my hard drive. When the first recycle backup was supposed to take place, I received an error 211 (media locked), and subsequently the backup did not execute. Any idea as to why the location with a normal backup set would work but the recycle backup would not? I am using Mac OS X Server v10.4.4.

 

Thanks for reading!

[rhwalker]

Some configuration information would be helpful (Retrospect version, RDU, type of backup - tape, file, disk, CD, DVD, etc.).

[Chief Technician]

OS X Server v10.4.4, Retrospect v6.1.126, RDU v6.1.5.102. The backup in question is a recycle backup to file on a hard drive.

[CallMeDave]

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I wrote a script that should be recycling a backup set that is being written to the Catalogs folder on my hard drive.

 

The backup in question is a recycle backup to file on a hard drive.

 

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Whatever the above means is likely your problem.

 

A File Backup Set is a _set_ of 2 files. They are stored together. One happens to have a ".cat" extension, but it should not be considered the same sort of Catalog file as seen in Tape, Removable or Internet backups. It can't be stored in a different location then the data portion of the set.

 

A more specific description of your configuration would be helpful in others understand exactly what you're doing.

 

Dave