Visiting the backup URL manually ( http://localhost/backup/default.aspx ) enabled me to see the backup reports as normal.  Had a quick look in the code of default.htm which is the page that the “Manage Small Business Server Backup” console loads and saw that it is really just a javascript redirect.

Turns out that this server had scripting disabled for the intranet zone and therefore the page redirection was never happening.

Once scripting was enabled again the backup console started working as expected.  Couldn’t find mention of anyone else having this problem so thought I would post.

Final error: 0xe00084c8 – The backup storage device has failed.
Final error category: Backup Device Errors

For additional information regarding this error refer to link V-79-57344-33992

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Final error: 0xe00084c8 – The backup storage device has failed.
Final error category: Backup Device Errors

For additional information regarding this error refer to link V-79-57344-33992

In the application event log there may also be the following:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Backup Exec
Event Category: None
Event ID: 33808
Date: 06/02/2010
Time: 19:02:25
User: N/A
Description:
An error occurred while processing a B2D command.
Drive: ReadMTFData() ReadFile failed (N:\VERITAS\B2D\B2D001024.bkf). Error=1450

For more information, click the following link:

http://eventlookup.veritas.com/eventlookup/EventLookup.jhtml

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Backup Exec
Event Category: None
Event ID: 57665
Date: 06/02/2010
Time: 19:02:25
User: N/A
Description:
Storage device “Friday N:” reported an error on a request to read data from media.

Error reported:
Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service.
.

For more information, click the following link:

http://eventlookup.veritas.com/eventlookup/EventLookup.jhtml

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Event Type: Error
Event Source: Backup Exec
Event Category: None
Event ID: 34113
Date: 06/02/2010
Time: 19:02:25
User: N/A
Description:
Backup Exec Alert: Job Failed
(Job: “Friday – Backup to N:”) Friday – Backup to N: — The job failed with the following error: The backup storage device has failed.

For more information, click the following link:

http://eventlookup.veritas.com/eventlookup/EventLookup.jhtml

A lot of people have this problem but there seemed to be no definitive answer. For me the following steps solved the problem:

1) From within device manager set the USB drive to “Optimize for performance”:

2) From within Backup Exec Devices – Set the maximum size for Backup-To-Disk files to 2GB

3) From within Backup Exec Devices – Disabled auto-detect device settings and enabled “Buffered Reads” and “Buffered Writes”

There is no clear resolution for this problem. Different settings seem to solve the problem for different systems. This is running on a Dell PowerEdge 2850 / Windows 2003 Standard and 4Gb. Backup size is approx 250Gb.

It sends an e-mail to a specified recipient reminding them to change the backup tape in a server. The SBS backup system does this automatically, so this is meant for use on SBS servers using something other than the in-built SBS backup.

Installation is simply a case of extracting the contents of this zip file to a folder on your SBS server and then changing the variables at the top of the script to appropriate values for your environment.

Once done you can test interactively from a command line by running “cscript tapereminder.vbs” and once you are happy with the results setup a scheduled task to do the job daily.