I had a similar problem last summer with an SBS 2003 server. After weeks of driver flopping, service restarting and server rebooting, I ended up swapping out the SATA card the tape drive was hung from, and it cleared up the issue immediately.
Not recommending you run out and buy another controller card to troubleshoot, but if you have one you can scavenge from somewhere just to try it, it might be worth a shot. Jim Slattery Systems Administrator, MEDEX Global Group 410-308-7931 ________________________________ From: Murray Freeman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 10:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: NTBACKUP PROBLEM We're using Windows Server 2K3 NtBackup to backup our servers to tape. >From time to time, a backup job doesn't run, and in trying to get the backup to run, we ultimately have to reboot the server that runs the backup. I've even uninstalled and reinstalled the tape drive and it shows as connected. When the backup job runs, it gets as far as "preparing" to do the shadow backup and then times out. It senses the tape, but the job never gets past the "preparing to copy" stage. Invariably the server reboot solves the problem, but I don't like to have to do the reboot. Anyone here have any ideas as to the cause of the problem and a fix that won't require a reboot? Murray Freeman IT Manager Association of Legal Administrators 75 Tri-State International Suite 222 Lincolnshire, IL 60069-4435 847.267.1252 TEL 847.267.1329 FAX 847.267.1367 DIRECT [email protected] www.alanet.org Your connection to knowledge, resources and networking ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
