Nick and Greg- Good suggestions. I am going to head over to the Overland site now and see what they have for updated drivers and apps. Fingers crossed the drive hasn't gone bad. Michael Hauck Network Administrator HiRel Systems 603-842-8808 -----Original Message----- From: Nick Smith [mailto:nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 11:55 AM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: Issues with NTBackup Another question which may be silly - have you cleaned drive regularly? If not, both tapes and drives maynow be irreparably damaged. If you haven't cleaned it for like weeks or monhts, get a cleaning tape, and run it several times. Then try a completely new tape, see what happens. If this works, get all-new tapes - the old ones are probably dirty. Nick -----Original Message----- From: Greg Reese [mailto:GReese@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 20 July 2004 16:52 To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: Issues with NTBackup What happens when you manually start a backup? Generally, every time I have had issues like this, it has been a bad tape or a bad drive. Maybe check for new drivers and see if they make a diagnostic app for your drive. If it's been find and nothing has changed, chances are it's a hardware problem. Greg -----Original Message----- From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Hauck Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 11:36 AM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Issues with NTBackup Excuse the cross post... We are having a problem with our nightly backups. Win2K file server NTBackup running "Normal" backups only Backing up various partitions on 10 servers through mapped drives. Overland Storage single tape unit This has been running fine for quite sometime, but in the last week we have had NTBackup stop in the middle of the backup for no apparent reason. The message in the backup log is always; The network disk drive has stopped responding. Backup set aborted. For Example- Backup started on 7/20/2004 at 1:09 AM. The network disk drive has stopped responding. Backup set aborted. Backup completed on 7/20/2004 at 1:17 AM. Directories: 112 Files: 3317 Bytes: 100,031,918 Time: 7 minutes and 41 seconds I am not aware of any changes to this server. I have recreated all of the backup jobs and power cycled the backup unit. I have searched on both the MS site and Googled for the "The network disk drive has stopped responding. Backup set aborted." and only managed a single hit for the exact phrase and that was for an NT4 box from 1995. I have checked the Event Viewer and only see the standard 8000 and 8001 messages. I tried to run a manual backup for the two servers not backed up last night and received the same message. Has anyone run into this before or have suggestions? Michael Hauck Network Administrator HiRel Systems 603-842-8808 ******************************************************** This Weeks Sponsor StressedPuppy.com Games Feeling stressed out? Check out our games to relieve your stress. http://www.StressedPuppy.com ******************************************************** To Unsubscribe, set digest or vacation mode or view archives use the below link. http://thethin.net/win2000list.cfm ******************************************************** This Weeks Sponsor StressedPuppy.com Games Feeling stressed out? Check out our games to relieve your stress. http://www.StressedPuppy.com ******************************************************** To Unsubscribe, set digest or vacation mode or view archives use the below link. http://thethin.net/win2000list.cfm ******************************************************** This Weeks Sponsor StressedPuppy.com Games Feeling stressed out? Check out our games to relieve your stress. http://www.StressedPuppy.com ******************************************************** To Unsubscribe, set digest or vacation mode or view archives use the below link. http://thethin.net/win2000list.cfm ******************************************************** This Weeks Sponsor StressedPuppy.com Games Feeling stressed out? Check out our games to relieve your stress. http://www.StressedPuppy.com ******************************************************** To Unsubscribe, set digest or vacation mode or view archives use the below link. http://thethin.net/win2000list.cfm