Hello everyone,

We have 2 media servers that we've recently installed with 2003 Server.
We found that both media servers are backing up successfully, but the restores 
end up with this error and then a bunch of garbage:
10/19/2004 2:45:11 PM - Error bptm(pid=992) backup id server_1098209859 is not 
a tar formatted image
10/19/2004 2:45:12 PM - Error bptm(pid=992) 0: v & & p Ó ^ " ` 6 8 " ? Ð ã « È
10/19/2004 2:45:13 PM - Error bptm(pid=992) 0: 7626 2670 d388 8460 3638 2287 
d0e3 abc8
10/19/2004 2:45:14 PM - Error bptm(pid=992) 16: Å Ý U ì ½ é Ù ? î ° f ) ø ² ! Z
10/19/2004 2:45:15 PM - Error bptm(pid=992) 16: c5dd 55ec bde9 d98f eeb0 8329 
f8b2 215a
Last week we successfully restored from an image that was giving us this same 
problem, but it had to be done using override and through a server that is 
Windows 2000. We've tested that it happens on more than one media and more than 
one drive. We are currently testing to verify that it is indeed related to 
2003, but I thought I would go ahead and post this to the group since it seems 
to be a pretty big and potentially dangerous problem. Has anyone else seen it 
and has there been a fix?
Our environment is 4.5 FP5
Master is 2000 and 14 Media are 2000, the other two media servers are 2003
SSO is also installed
Thanks,

Rusty Major, BCFP, MCSE
Information Services
Texas Children's Hospital
(832) 824-4125