Backup failure

All,
I am receiving the following error when I try to backup to tape from SQL usi
ng backup under the Management folder in Enterprise manager. Logged in as ad
ministrator. Can backup the pubs, Northwind and master databases with no pro
blem.
The database is approx. 8.5GB and the tape can hold 40GB formatted. Using op
tion to overwrite and initialize.
Microsoft SQL-DMO (ODBC SQLState: 42000)
Write on '\\.\Tape0' failed, status = 1117. See the SQL Server error log for
more details, backup database is terminating abnormally.
In the error log;
Internal I/O request 0x075CB728: op: write, pBuffer: 0x07d3000, size: 65536,
position: 11141120, UMS: internal: 0xC0000185, internalhigh: 0x10000, offse
t: 0xAA0000, offsethigh: 0x0, m_buf: 0x07d30000, m_len: 65536, m_actualbytes
: 65536, m_errcode: 1117, b
ackupfile: \\.\Tape0
Any thought would be appreciated.
Regards,
Davecan you back it up to disk instead of to tape?
can you backup a large file from disk to tape?
I will do it this way because backup done faster and eliminating the hassle
of dealing with the tape drive.
my 0.02
"David" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> All,
> I am receiving the following error when I try to backup to tape from SQL
using backup under the Management folder in Enterprise manager. Logged in as
administrator. Can backup the pubs, Northwind and master databases with no
problem.
> The database is approx. 8.5GB and the tape can hold 40GB formatted. Using
option to overwrite and initialize.
> Microsoft SQL-DMO (ODBC SQLState: 42000)
> Write on '\\.\Tape0' failed, status = 1117. See the SQL Server error log
for more details, backup database is terminating abnormally.
> In the error log;
> Internal I/O request 0x075CB728: op: write, pBuffer: 0x07d3000, size:
65536, position: 11141120, UMS: internal: 0xC0000185, internalhigh: 0x10000,
offset: 0xAA0000, offsethigh: 0x0, m_buf: 0x07d30000, m_len: 65536,
m_actualbytes: 65536, m_errcode: 1117, backupfile: \\.\Tape0
> Any thought would be appreciated.
> Regards,
> Davesql