Here is an error from the Job History.

Executed as user: ****\40F2******. Request for device 'tapedump2' timed out. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 3229) BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally. [SQLSTATE...

Just to update all of you who have responded to this topic. Out of morbid curiosity I cleaned the tape drives before the backup jobs kicked off. The...

Steve

Thank you for your quick response. I suspect the media itself may be the culprit given the age of the media. As for backing up to disk--I agree...