Cannot take Backup in Tape..............Why ? what is wrong with this tape?

Hi there.
I haver very weird problem. I have installed BackupExec for Windows on our S
taging Server. It run goods with our Backup jobs but when i go to SQL Server
and try to backup and database on tape. It gives me this error :
The media family on device '\\.'Tape0' is incorrectly formed. SQL Server can
not process this media family.
BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
What could be wrong ?
What can i do to make my backup run on Tape.
P.S
Tape is DELL (Media Recognition System) 20 GB.
System is Dell PowerEdge.
Thanks for any response
Abid MalikChange \\.Tape0 to
\\.\Tape0 ( you are missing a whack!)
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"Abid Malik" <abidmunirmalik@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi there.
> I haver very weird problem. I have installed BackupExec for Windows on our
Staging Server. It run goods with our Backup jobs but when i go to SQL
Server and try to backup and database on tape. It gives me this error :
> The media family on device '\\.'Tape0' is incorrectly formed. SQL Server
cannot process this media family.
> BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
> What could be wrong ?
> What can i do to make my backup run on Tape.
> P.S
> Tape is DELL (Media Recognition System) 20 GB.
> System is Dell PowerEdge.
>
> Thanks for any response
> Abid Malik
>