pwalters Posted May 24, 2002 Report Share Posted May 24, 2002 Hello, I am running Retrospect 5.5 with a Quantum DLT4500. We have an unattended tape backup scheduled every night, but it keeps failing. It gets to the first tape fine usually, but eventually it can't find one of them within it's timeout. The backup spans 5 tapes. Originally the problem was that I had tapes in the library with the names: 1-Tape Backup Set 1-Tape Backup Set 2-Tape Backup Set 3-Tape Backup Set 3-Tape Backup Set I fixed that so that it was 1-5, and erased them all. I got this from it's e-mail notification: Report generated by Retrospect. ------------------------ Media request for media "2-Tape Backup Set" ("2-Tape Backup Set") timed out before script could finish. I've also had it give me that on 3-Tape Backup Set. Anyone have any idea what the problem might be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lv2ski Posted May 28, 2002 Report Share Posted May 28, 2002 First of all, why are you naming your tapes? Retrospect does not perfer named tapes. Instead it would appreciate blank, new unnamed tapes. Is this possible to let Retrospect pick the tape and name it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwalters Posted May 28, 2002 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2002 I haven't tried that yet. Mostly because Retrospect asks for a name everytime I erase one of the tapes. Would leaving that blank be helpful? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lv2ski Posted May 28, 2002 Report Share Posted May 28, 2002 YES! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwalters Posted May 29, 2002 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2002 I tried that. Retrospect used the first tape and named it appropriately, but then complained that the second tape in the series is not there. Anymore suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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