My first checks would be for write enabled - Media - Protect clip, toggle, whatever Logically - Device Manager - no ? or yellowing of the device's icon And then Physically - 'Protect' or Write Enable' switch
JimB -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2015 6:11 PM To: ntsysadm Subject: [NTSysADM] DPM 2012 error on one job All, Last weekend, all of my DPM jobs that write to tape worked, except one. It failed, and keeps failing, with this error: The operation failed because of a protection agent failure. (ID 998 Details: The parameter is incorrect (0x80070057)) My SFTW only shows references to problems with SP1 UR3, that it's resolved with a more current UR, but we're well past that - current as a matter of fact, at 4.1.3465.0. Retrying only generates the same error. We're running DPM on server 2008R2. The backup that failed (which I don't think has happened before, but I've just taken over backups for a departed staff member) is of a Win2003R2 VM running on VMware 5.5. This is actually pretty minor, because this is a machine that isn't critical, but I'd like to understand it. Has anyone run into this and solved it, or perhaps can point me in the right direction? Thanks, Kurt
