Backup jobs do not finish over the network.
We have 5 Win 2003 servers that backup, using Windows backup, to a network drive on an NAS server, also 2003. The files then are backed up from the drive on the NAS to a tape each day. The backup from the NAS folder to the tape is fine and it backs up whatever is there. The problem is the backups going from the other servers to the NAS folder often do not work. The jobs are staggered and are set up as differentials during the week due to time, and run full jobs on the weekends. Each server has its own folder on the NAS drive and the jobs are set to save to that folder and the differentials overwrite each night while the full job for each one only overwrites on the weekend. The jobs often start and the give an error in the log of : "c: is not a valid drive or you do not have access" "Device reported an error on request to write data to media." This usually occurs at the start of the job so I do not think it is a time issue (one job running into another). Some nights they work and other nights they do not, but they are not consistent. Any ideas on how to get them to run each night and not give errors? I have deleted and rescheduled the jobs for tonight on the main server, so I will see how that turns out.
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The errors occur on the server that is backing up to the NAS folder, so the data source. The NAS picks up whatever gets to it and backs it up. The errors are in the Windows backup log of the server that is backing up to the folder on the NAS. It has worked sometimes, and not others so could it be the network connection between the 2 dropping? I tried mapping a drive on one of the servers to the NAS folder and pointing the job to the mapped drive rather than the network share and got the same results.
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We loaded Veritas BE on each of the server and the NAS and have had no problems since. May have been that Windows backup as not allowing it to reconnect or stopped anytime there was a conenction glitch. This case can be closed or aborted as of now.
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Check the Event Viewer logs, also run error checking and defrag on the volume (right click on the drive, select properties, and then tools. The NAS volume might have its own utilities for checking and logging.