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Dear All

I have win2k3 server in my office and HP DLT drive v80GB dlt drive for our backup purpose. I want to schdule our daily backup. I am using win2k3's backup utility for the same..... I have 2 issues here

* I schduled the backup everyday night 11pm for the selective folders, using schdule option in the backup utility, first two days backup is taken ( checked the log file) , from 3rd day onwards my log files shows " can't find the media to mount, backup unsuccessful". But i am making sure everyday before leaving from office i am inserting the catridge into drive. But if i try to take backup manually i am able to take. I don't know what is reason media can't be found.. even i deleted existing backup job and created new job,, but no gain same thing is happening from the day one. Can someone help me out.

* I have SQL server also running in that server, also i want to take backup of our running database everyday( *.ldf & *.mdf) but while sql is running i can't take backup of those files (file is in use), how do i stop sql at the time of taking backup and start automatically after completing the backup. I want to automate this backup. If anybody have some script kindly share it with me......

Thanks in Advance
Sakthi

Can anybody help me.....!!!???

The media pool has run out of tapes.

Add /UM to your backup job and it your backup will then use any media you put in your drive.

Can you pls. elobrate in detail. I Couldn't understand!!

Check your scheduled tasks and you will see that one of them is your backup job.
If you check the properties you will see a really long command that is your backup. You need to add /UM to the end of the command.
I don't have an example to look at so this might not be 100% accurate.

Check your log file

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