We have been able to reliably restart Device Manager on NT and 2000 SAN media
servers without this error by doing the following:

1. stop Device Manager
2. stop Volume Manager
3. start Device Manager (this will also automatically start Volume Manager
back up)

Works every time.  I did see the error below often until I started using the
sequence above.


- Scott



                                                                                
                                                   
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Is anyone able to restart Netbackup on Windows 2000 without rebooting the
server?

I have several Windows 2000-based servers in my SAN, and whenever a need
comes up to restart Netbackup, the device will not stay running. After
starting it, it fails after about a minute with this in the event log:

Event Type:          Error
Event Source:        NetBackup Device Manager
Event Category:           None
Event ID:       2677
Date:                     7/16/2002
Time:                     7:26:00 AM
User:                     N/A
Computer:       XXXXXX
Description:
Cannot get messages: Cannot create a file when that file already exists.

Veritas support had no suggestions.

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                                                              - Bluejay
Adametz

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