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Copying LTO 3 Drive to tape

Troubleshooter24 — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:57:08 +0000

We back up everynight to a LTO3 drive. Can we copy the tape to send it to multiple locations and not just store it in our datacenter? We use brightstore.

I have a LTO 3 tape drive that does not read my LTO2 tapes is this normal?

thongtarget21 — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:18:54 +0000

I have a LTO 3 tape drive that does not read my LTO2 tapes is this normal? I thought they were backwards compatible. I can read the LTO2 tapes in the LTO2 drive but not vice versa. It seems to be letting me write to them but not read them.

Proper Method of setting up a new Tape in Backup Exec 12.0

Soghawk — Fri, 28 May 2010 16:21:30 +0000

Using LTO 3 Ultrium Data Cartridges. What is the proper method to setting up a new tape. Should it be Labeled first then Inventoried or Inventoried and then labeled. Does the tape need to be cataloged. What are the proper steps to do this?

Backup Exec 12 Ultrium LTO 3

Sulser — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:05:35 +0000

Because of too much information, my LTO drive has been spanning tapes. Last night it couldn’t span because the next tape was not in the same media set. I was asked to insert a tape, but I couldnt’ insert a tape because the drive was locked. Couldn’t unlock the drive because a job was running?! Help