It could be a couple of issues.  Double check that the scheduled class has
the correct storage unit defined and that the tapes within the media manager
/ volume database are correct.  Also you may need to check the volume pool
that the class is using.  

It seems odd that a manual backup would work, but that the scheduled backup
would not?  You might also check to see that all of your daemons are
running.  

Lastly, you could try relabeling the tape that you are going to use.  The
last time I received the Storage unit has no media available, I relabeled
the media and then it worked fine.  Of course in my case I think it was
because I had moved media between a couple different media pools and a
couple of tapes were not updated.

Hope this helps.

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Sangemino, Joe [mailto:JSANGEMINO AT EFTIA DOT com]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 10:37 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Error 96


Hello,  lately I've been seeing failures in our Microsoft Exchange Server
backups, using the Netbackup Exchange client.  The failure is reported back
to our Unix Netbackup 3.2 server  as: (96) unable to allocate new media for
backup, storage unit has none available.

This is a bogus message, because there are always 2 available tapes in the
robot, and if I fire off the backup manually to the same tapes, the job runs
successfully.  Any ideas on what's causing this?  

Thanks,
Joe

Joe Sangemino
NT/UNIX Systems Administrator
Eftia OSS Solutions Inc.
jsangemino AT eftia DOT com
Tel. (613)368-4181


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