posted on Tuesday, September 20, 2005 9:21 AM by bradley

Mind telling me which one, dear?

So the backup failed last night and I remote in to look at the log file errors....

“Verify of "F:"
Backup set #3 on media #1
Backup description: "SBS Backup created on 9/19/2005 at 7:00 PM"
Verify started on 9/19/2005 at 10:30 PM.

Error: An inconsistency was encountered in the requested backup file.”

Okay... that's nice...mine telling me which file?

Steve Foster posted up in the SBS2k yahoogroups a patched backup script [bkprunner.exe] that excludes the verify command. [the file is in the Yahoo Files section] 

Hmmm.. maybe I might want to try that if I can't figure out what file it doesn't like?

Now the Backup troubleshooting page says

Backup fails, reporting "An inconsistency was encountered."

Cause:  You are backing up to a UNC path on the local computer that is currently being backed up.

Solution:  Use the Backup Configuration Wizard to change the destination of the backup to another location. Alternately, you can use the wizard to exclude the UNC path from the backup.

Merv talked about his backup resetting and including the drive of the backup as well... I wonder if that's what's happened to me? Hmm.... doesn't look like it.  Okay so maybe I'll wack off the backup verification.

Update - also in my log file was a 'bad block on device 2' which of course is the harddrive.  So I flipped that one out and the backup completed perfectly tonight.

Comments

# re: Mind telling me which one, dear?

Tuesday, September 20, 2005 1:11 PM by Tony
I was getting those or something very similar on my backups. It was weird, because there didn't seem to be any reason, cleaning the tape drive and changing tapes didn't fix it.

Turned out to be the tapes were full. I was about 500k to a couple meg over the max size of the tape. You would think it would have been a message saying insert the next tape or something like that, but it wasn't. It said the backup ran into an error or inconsistancy. Unfortunatly, I don't have a log file with the message, but the one you indicate seems like it was the one I was getting.

Something to check just in case.

# re: Mind telling me which one, dear?

Saturday, October 29, 2005 7:02 AM by Dunx
Is there a way to get the backup logs to save onto the backup media - if a server goes down and has to be rebuilt chances are the only record of which backups were successful is on that downed server.