Consider the possibility of hardware problem. You didn't get much info on the 
hardware configuration, but check /var/messages on the NetWorker server for any 
tell tail errors and see if the NetWorker inquire utility can see the tape 
library's tape drive and robotic device.

On 01 3, 2012, at 11:05 AM, tonyalbers wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have this customer who is running networker 7.3 on linux. It's old I know. 
> Yesterday it suddenly stopped staging save sets from AFTD to tape and the 
> message "Waiting for 1 writable volumes to backup pool 'Daily' disk(s) or 
> tape(s) on "servername"" appeared.
> They have a jukebox with one LTO3 drive attached and 23 slots. Drive is 
> write-enabled.
> 
> Now. I have tried several things:
> Restarting NW and cleaning out /nsr/tmp while it was down.
> Rebooting the server (uptime 176 days, so just to be sure)
> mminfo -va on a volume to make sure that it's actually recyclable.
> mminfo -q 'volume=000001' -r 'client,ssretent,clretent,savetime,name' to see 
> if any savesets were not expired. they all were.
> I manually relabeled 000001 and it didn't help.
> 00001 is not set to manual recycle and auto media management is on.
> 
> The staging is the built-in type, so there are no weird scripts or anything 
> that could cause this.
> 
> Any good ideas?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> /tony
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