Allstreets10 Posted February 11, 2004 Report Share Posted February 11, 2004 I've been using Retrospect since September, running a five-day rotation. The incremental backups usually execute, but the scheduled recycle backups have never executed once! Instead, the backup stalls at the very start of the operation, by asking for the tape that is in the tape drive. I've tried ejecting and reinserting the tape. Retrospect recognizes the tape, by name, but then asks for the same tape, by the same name! A sample message from today is, "Please select a new tape. It will be named '1-Wednesday A.'" Even though the tape in the tape drive *is* "1-Wednesday A." I can erase this tape, and Retrospect will go head and rename it 1-Wednesday A and perform the backup. But there are two problems with this. First, obviously, I bought this software on the strength of its automation features. I want this to run by itself overnight, unattended and without my intervention required. That is what the manual says is supposed to happen. Why won't it work that way? Second, I've done this to some tapes and now Retrospect won't recognize them for incremental backups. I guess it must think there is another tape by the same name that it needs. What should I do? I need to be able to recycle and reuse these tapes--they aren't cheap. At the rate I am going soon Retrospect will refuse to back up anything at all. FWIW: I am backing up a Win 95 network to a VXA-2 tape drive. Grateful for any response, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 Hi If this is Retrospect 6.5 make sure you have the "automatically reuse pre-named media" preference checked. Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allstreets10 Posted February 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 Nate-- I am using 6.5, and had not selected that preference. So likely that was the problem (though I won't know for another two weeks). Thank you! Now if only I could solve the problem of Retrospect not recognizing tapes for their weekly incremental backups. Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdube Posted February 13, 2004 Report Share Posted February 13, 2004 I have the same problem and I had that option enabled! For no reason, that option just removed itself this week. I re-enabled it and we'll see in the coming days. I guess the preferences gets corrupted sometimes and I have seen another problem with the prefs not saving the number of concurrent executions and always reverting to 1. I hope Dantz will correct this problem soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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