ntbackup media pool problem. HELP

[Pinkpig]

hello all....

I tried to automate backup of some files in a directory. I use ntbackup wizard setup the backup procedure for me, then it will have scheduled tasks run the backup once a night. It was working fine for like 2 weeks, i would switch tapes each day and it would automatically backup at night. Now i suddenly get this message

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Application popup: Messenger Service : Message from BACKUPSERVER to BACKUPSERVER on 3/29/2005 1:56:29 AM

From: Backup on BACKUPSERVER
User: Administrator
Subj: **ADMINISTRATOR ALERT**

Add "4mm DDS" media to the Free Media Pool, or to media pool "\Backup\4mm DDS"
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I've been trying a couple of days trying to do it different ways. I even made a batch file to run ntbackup. The batch file i created looks something like this

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rsm.exe refresh /LF"HP C1537A SCSI Sequential Device"
sleep 30
for /f "Tokens=1-4 Delims=/ " %%i in ('date /t') do set dt=%%i-%%j-%%k-%%l
for /f "Tokens=1" %%i in ('time /t') do set tm=-%%i
set tm=%tm::=-%
set dtt=%dt%%tm%
c:\winnt\system32\ntbackup.exe backup "@C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings
\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows NT\NTBackup\data\Daily.bks"
/n "%computername%-%dtt%" /d "daily %dtt%" /v:yes /r:no /rs:no /hcn
/m normal /j "daily %dtt%" /l:f /p "4mm DDS" /UM
rsm.exe eject /PF"%computername%-%dtt% - 1" /astart
exit
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The daily.bks backsup a directory and i looked into that file and it has this in it C:\tape

When i run the batch file manually it backsup fine. but when i leave it up to the schedular to do it at night, i will get that message in the morning.

any help or suggestions would be great!
Thanks
Laura

 

[Smilin]

I didn't dissect your batch job completely (I'll take a closer look if this doesn't work). You appear to be using the /UM switch so you should't be getting prompted for media unless your tape is filling up.

You said it was working but now isn't so try clearing your RSM database.

1. Stop the Removable Storage Service
2. Rename NTMSDATA and NTMSDATA.BAK in your %systemroot%\system32\NtmsData folder
3. Start the Removable Storage service again.