Maarten,
        For the  
'The staging insists that it has to use a drive on the HPUX storage node
and refuses to use the free tape-drive on the backup server.

All remote tapes on the storage-nodes have however been set to disabled.

All clients have the clone storage node set to the (default) empty
field.
All clients who were dedicated storage nodes have set their storage node
field to nsrserverhost.' 

problem, check that the pool is not restricted to the HPUX storage node
device (there may be a block size issue between the differing operating
systems too...). Why not re-enable the HPUX storage node and device and
stage across the LAN (20GB shouldn't swamp the network)?

Regards
Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU]
On Behalf Of Maarten Boot
Sent: 21 July 2006 11:06
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Staging asks for tape in storagenode

Hi,  

Slowly getting used to my new environment here and my new life in
Croatia.

At my new company have installed 7.3 (upgrade to 7.3.1 soon)
unfortunately on Win 2003.
We have 3 extra dedicated storage nodes (2 on Win 1 on HPUX 11) A
Storagetek SL500 with 2 HP Ultrium 3 (LTO-3).
And about 30 clients in total (linux, Hpux and Win2003/Win2000)

Storage nodes and Storagetek are on San. Win and Linux Machines are
mostly HP-380.

Currently we have some problems with Tapes being flagged full much to
early (20Gb on LTO-3) without clear error messages so I switched off all
tape drives on the storage nodes and started doing backups over Lan
(1Gb).

Lets see if that gets backups to finish properly.

In the mean time I want to stage the data off the tapes that are to
early flagged full so I can inspect the tapes by writing them full with
test data.

The staging insists that it has to use a drive on the HPUX storage node
and refuses to use the free tape-drive on the backup server.

All remote tapes on the storage-nodes have however been set to disabled.

All clients have the clone storage node set to the (default) empty
field.
All clients who were dedicated storage nodes have set their storage node
field to nsrserverhost.

Any body who can shed light on this mysterious behavior ?

Maarten (back on the list)

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