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Posted by matt2kjones, 07-24-2008, 04:13 AM Hello, I have a Dell LTO-4 tape device, its not an autoloader, just a single drive. When backing up using NTBackup, the backup to the first tape is sucessful, however, the backup wont fit on one tape, so it prompts me to tell me the media is full. I insert new media, but NTBackup doesn't notice its there, so i go to Removable storage, click libaries, right click the tape drive, and click inventory. This makes NTBackup detect the tape, and asks me if i want to use it. I click yes, but then i get an error message come up saying it was unable to mount the media, invalid command, and the following gets logged to the report: I have read many microsoft articles that explain tape drives having problem with automated backups because the user inserts a new tape, but ntbackup isn't aware of it. But that seems to be related only to scheduled unattended backups. In this case its when the first tape is full and it prompts me for the second tape. Any ideas? Thank you.
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