We are getting the following error on our nightly backups:
Type: Tape backup
Status: Failed
Description: The operation failed because of a protection agent failure. (ID 998 Details: The parameter is incorrect (0x80070057))
More information
End time: 05/04/2013 01:23:46
Start time: 05/04/2013 00:54:35
Time elapsed: 00:29:11
Data transferred: 37,193.06 MB
Cluster node -
Source details: C:\
Protection group members: 1
Details
Protection group: PSI
Library: IBM ULTRIUM-TD3 SCSI Sequential Device
Tape Label (Barcode): PSI-00000372 (None)
This is happening on the agent that is running on the DPM server itself.
The tapes we use are LTO3 with 400GB native (800GB compressed) and DPM says we have written 200GB so there should be plenty of room.
Thanks