I sometimes get this problem after performing test restore. Usually cured by
ensuring the tape heads are clean. Try doing a test backup and seeing if you
can restore from this.

Had another thought - is your drive reporting any errors (usually a flashing
yellow led)?. If so try turning it off (if external). Certain makes of
drives keep an internal record of the errors that have occurred and if these
exceed a certain threshold, then it will continually report a warning.

Also try unloading and then loading BE Mgr.

If all else fails you could down and restart the server....

Anyway, hope this helps.


"Roger Hotz" wrote in message news:3ae092b5$1@hronntp01....
>
> I have Backup Exec for Netware 8. I have made semi-annual backups of our
company
> data, in case we need to recover files from certain time periods. Today I
> had a request for a file from 1999, so I got out the semi-annual and tried
> to catalog it. I got a message saying "Tape Unrecognized". Got that
message
> on a couple of other semi-annuals. Got the same message when trying to
inventory
> the tapes. How can this be? This is the same tape drive and software used
> to make the tapes. There were no errors reports when the tapes were made.
> Now they are unrecognized? We now essentially have no backups for those
time
> periods. This is NOT good. I was reading another message in this group
saying
> "Why is this backup suite so problematic. I cannot trust it after this."
> Amen to that. If you cannot trust your backup, you have a big problem.
Help!
>
> Thanks
>