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AskSQLTeam
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 Posted - 2007-03-07 : 08:42:35
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| Modupe writes "I have not been able to take my daily backups on Tape. i get an error message;cannot open backup device '\\.\Tape0'. Device error or device off-linefrom the event viewer the error message is:Backup TapeFile:: OpemMedia: Backupdevice '\\.\ Tape0' failed to open. operating system error = 32 [ The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process:]" |
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pareshmotiwala
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Posted - 2007-03-07 : 12:45:08
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| sometimes the NT backup also happen on the same tape.Make sure you release the tape drive from the NT Backup schedules. Ideally you should not run both from the same machine. |
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Backup error