Backup

Hi,
I've received this message when trying to backup the database to a tape.
'"he file on device '\\.\Tape0' is not a valid Microsoft Tape Format backup
set. BACKUP DATABASE is terminating adnormally."
What is the cause & how can it be solve? Please help. Thanks
SayAre you using the tapes for anything other than backing up
from SQL Server to tape? You can get this error when the
tapes have backups other than SQL Server backups on them.
If you are storing other windows backups on the tape, you
would need to do native SQL backups to disk and then backup
these backup files on disk to tape.
-Sue
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 00:55:01 -0700, Say
<Say@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>Hi,
> I've received this message when trying to backup the database to a tape.
>'"he file on device '\\.\Tape0' is not a valid Microsoft Tape Format backup
>set. BACKUP DATABASE is terminating adnormally."
> What is the cause & how can it be solve? Please help. Thanks
>Say