Adam:
to test your environment, DOWN all of the drives on
your original unit.
vmoprcmd -down DriveIndexNumber -h MediaServer
or through the GUI.
Then do a manual backup of one of your clients and see
if it uses your library.
If that doesn't work let me know.
david
Quoting "Zufall, Ken" <KZufall AT officemax DOT com>:
> When NBU looks for a storage unit, it does so by
alpha/numeric order, i.e.
> LIB1 is used before LIB2. Since the problem that
prompted you to get the
> additional storage unit is lack of media as opposed
to insufficient drive
> resources, I would say that LIB1 always has available
drives and therefore
> is the only one being used-this is assuming that your
backups are set to
> acquire any available storage unit. The fix here
would be to just specify
> using the second unit on a few classes, distribute
the workload between the
> two units.
>
> Ken Zufall
> Technical Analyst
> Phone: 216.471.3613
> Pager: 440.303.1656
> Fax: 216.491.4051
>
> "It's not the most intellectual job, but I do have to
know all the
> letters."
> Vanna White
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Levin
[mailto:alevin AT audible DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001
8:50 AM
> To: veritas-
bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] library
not being used
>
>
> NetBackup 3.2 on Sun Solaris 2.6.
>
> We've been running backups to a
Qualstar 6460 (4 DLT7000
> drives, 60
> tapes). We recently added a Qualstar
6220 (1 DLT7000, 20
> tapes) because
> we were filling all of our tapes before
the retention period
> expired
> images (we're down to 1 month for
fulls).
>
> I'm trying to get a larger library, but
until then, I've got
> a problem.
> The second, small library is not being
used.
>
> Both libraries are connect directly to
our master server.
> The backups are
> set to use any available storage unit.
The tapes in both
> are in the same
> pool. Device manager can see both
libraries and all five
> drives. Media
> manager can see 60+20 tapes.
>
> What in the world am I missing? Where
should I begin to
> look?
>
> Thanks,
> -Adam
>
> Adam Levin, Senior Unix Systems
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in my bucket.
> 973-837-2797
>
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