This error means that you have filled the tape, and BENT has tried to re-load
the same tape to continue the job.
Is the loader partitioned, with the job pointed at a single slot? Do you
"inventory all" when swap magazines, so that BENT knows that other scratch tapes
are available?

150GB - Is that native or at some compression rate? if it is native, then you
do have a problem somewhere, if it is with compression, then the answer is that
you are not getting compression that high during the job. Are you using H/W or
S/W compression? If H/W try S/W for one run, (the compression ratios won't be
exactly the same, but they will be close.) to see what kind of compression you
are getting

Stone wrote:

> I am using BE 8.5 and have an Exabyte Autoloader. As the tapes come back
> through rotation I am not getting them to overwrite the old data with the
> new.
>
> It tells me "The media provided to continue the backup already contains data
> from one or more sets created during this operation. The operation can not
> be continued"
>
> The tapes hold 150GB and I only need to backup 70GB of data. I have the job
> set to Overwrite Media when the job begins. I am using software
> compression. The Media Overwrite is set to None and Prompt before
> overwriting allocated or imported media is unchecked. I have one media set
> where all tapes are listed.

I have each slot partitioned into its own. I have 4 tape drives in the
backup device. I run one tape in each drive backing up different servers
each night.

I would say I am not doing an inventory all because I don't even know how to
do that! sorry.

150GB is compress and it is 80GB native. I have at total of 73GB uncompress
data to backup on those servers.


"Ken Putnam" wrote in message
news:3B32B89F.6BDFF3DF@usa.net...
> This error means that you have filled the tape, and BENT has tried to
re-load
> the same tape to continue the job.
> Is the loader partitioned, with the job pointed at a single slot? Do you
> "inventory all" when swap magazines, so that BENT knows that other scratch
tapes
> are available?
>
> 150GB - Is that native or at some compression rate? if it is native, then
you
> do have a problem somewhere, if it is with compression, then the answer is
that
> you are not getting compression that high during the job. Are you using
H/W or
> S/W compression? If H/W try S/W for one run, (the compression ratios
won't be
> exactly the same, but they will be close.) to see what kind of compression
you
> are getting
>
> Stone wrote:
>
> > I am using BE 8.5 and have an Exabyte Autoloader. As the tapes come
back
> > through rotation I am not getting them to overwrite the old data with
the
> > new.
> >
> > It tells me "The media provided to continue the backup already contains
data
> > from one or more sets created during this operation. The operation can
not
> > be continued"
> >
> > The tapes hold 150GB and I only need to backup 70GB of data. I have the
job
> > set to Overwrite Media when the job begins. I am using software
> > compression. The Media Overwrite is set to None and Prompt before
> > overwriting allocated or imported media is unchecked. I have one media
set
> > where all tapes are listed.
>