The tape robot is good, and none of the media are write-protected. I should have mentioned that this tape job shares a tape with several other small tape jobs.
We have 2 rather large tape writes (Exchange and the file server) that get their own tapes, and several much smaller that are co-located on tape. Kurt On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 10:25 AM, James Button <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > >
