Auto Generating Phantom drives

I'm running SQL on a clustering configuration. I recently started noticing
these phantom drives appearing under my computer. They are all relatively
close in size and it appears to only create one phantom drive each Sunday. I
currently have the SQL Server backing up it's files to the real Local drive
and from there it goes to tape. I do not only back up on Sunday I backup the
same way each day. The phantom drives do not show up under Disk Manager only
under My Computer.
Anyone every experience these phantom drives appearing.
Peter
Disks or drives? They are different.
Disks could be from your SAN solution, managing snapshot copies and other
head-in components.
Drives are one of two possible scenarios:
Have you been presenting replacement LUNs to your cluster? If so, you could
be seeing remnants of the old definitions. You might want to rescan the
disks and then reboot the servers to remove the old ones.
The more likely scenario is the use of the OTM (Open Transaction Manager) in
conjunction with the Veritas NetBackup or BackupExec. OTM can create
temporary shares that look like drives that it uses for snapshot copies
while doing backup acceleration.
They go away once the tape archive has completed successfully. If they
remain, then you probably had a backup failure and Veritas failed to remove
the share.
Sincerely,
Anthony Thomas

"Peter" <peter@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'm running SQL on a clustering configuration. I recently started noticing
> these phantom drives appearing under my computer. They are all relatively
> close in size and it appears to only create one phantom drive each Sunday.
I
> currently have the SQL Server backing up it's files to the real Local
drive
> and from there it goes to tape. I do not only back up on Sunday I backup
the
> same way each day. The phantom drives do not show up under Disk Manager
only
> under My Computer.
> Anyone every experience these phantom drives appearing.
> --
> Peter