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My Tandberg LTO Drive isn't working with Veritas Backup Exec

My Tandberg drive wouldn't install with Veritas Backup Exec v9. I rolled back to version 8.6, and the installation went okay, but now my backups appear to fail everyday, even though the data restores properly. Plus my media keeps being renamed with all sorts of weird characters rather than the names I assign. Can you help?

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When you say 'rolled back' did you use a system restore function? Do the backup logs say why they failed?

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