Mark,

Shutdown the BE services and use the NTbackup to perform a quick erase on
this tape. Before restarting the services, delete BETOPCAT.IDX in the catalogs
directory and this should fix the problem. Make sure you have MDAC v2.1.1
or v2.5 installed as older versions of ODBC can corrupt the catalog index
file. To check which version you have, run Regedit and navigate to:
HKLM/Software/Microsoft/DataAccess, you will find the version displayed on
the right window pane.

Good luck,
Paul

"Mark Berry" wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Environment: BackupExec 7.3 2575 REVISED. Machine is NT4 Workstaiton,
>Service Pack 5. BeCatDrv.dll is dated 10/22/99 and is 345,264 bytes. The
>BackupExec account has admin rights, and I'm logged on as an admin.
>
>I've been merrily using a single DDS2 DAT drive for some time. I put all
>tapes into the "Rotation - Normal" media group. The catalogs of tapes
>created/reused with this drive are fine.
>
>Just bought a DDS3 autoloader, and installed the BackupExec AutoLoader
>update. I renamed my old "Rotation - Normal" media set to "Rotation - Normal
>DDS2," then set up a new "Rotation - Normal" group. I erased and named
the
>media in the all slots of the new drive. Then I did a full backup of all
>machines.
>
>Now, under Restore Selections, the Volume View doesn't show _any_ backups
>created on the new DDS3 drive, except for one that I aborted. If I switch
to
>Media View, I see all the old DDS2 media with the appropriate contents,
but
>under the one new DDS3 media that I used, I see _all_ the backup sets. That
>is, under the DDS3 media created 6/24/00, I see backup sets created on DDS2
>media back to 3/11/00. However, I only see one backup set created on 6/24,
>the one I aborted before doing the full backup of all machines.
>
>I suppose it has something to do with this: under Media Management, the
new
>DDS3 media has a Media ID of {A762ED2A-4933-11D4-9E5C-00A024EFD0A8}. Under
>the Restore Selections tab, the same media shows a Media ID of
>{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}. Why is the Restore Selection using
>this ID? Is my catalog still there somewhere? How do I fix this, and prevent
>it in the future?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mark Berry
>
>