this is one of those things that is baffling yet stupidly easy to fix. i had a VDR destination that backup jobs were suddenly failing on…as in instantly failing with an error -2246. i’ve encountered problems with VDR destinations before and assumed the catalog was messed up so i went about reformatting the destination and starting fresh. so i did that and ran an integrity check, the destination was then marked as ready.

i tried to run a backup job and the same error occurred. eventually i figured it out…even though a reformatted destination is named exactly the same as before (ex: SCSI-1:0), VDR identifies it differently from the previous destination. to resolve this simply edit the existing backup jobs and reselect the appropriate destination and then basically next, next, next your way out of the wizard. the problem should then be resolved.

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