OK, so the storage agent gets a drive and doesn't appear to release it when
completed?
TBH - I've only ever had reservation conflicts on windows clients.  You are
100% sure the paths are correct i.e. drive serial numbers match up on client
and in the path defs for it?

On 3 May 2011 14:38, Mehdi Salehi <ezzobad AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

> I have setup LAN-free backup, but sometimes the storage agent causes
> reservation conflict. The only way to remove this conflict is the following
> command on storage agent:
> # chdev  -l rmt0 -a reserve_type=persistent
> and then
> # chdev  -l rmt0 -a reserve_type=reserve_6
>
> Here a library manger controls who should use the tape. I do not understand
> why this happens.
>
> Thank you,
> Mehdi
>