I was having a similar issue the other day -- when I had last changed out
tapes and ran vmupdate i didn't specify a media type. Everything in
Netbackup expected to use DLT2 media, but vmupdate registered the new tapes
as type DLT.

hope this helps or gives a direction to look.

-Charles Ballowe

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chester Manuel [mailto:cmanuel AT diadexus DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 11:33 AM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Why does NB say I have no media available but
> available_media say s I have some active
> 
> 
> Hi Everyone,
> 
>   My backups are failing with an exit status of 96.  The 
> messages say unable
> to allocate new media for backup, storage unit has none available.  I
> checked the troubleshooting manual and said to use the available_media
> script; /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies/available_media.  
> The status column
> says I have 12 active tapes in the volume pool that gives me 
> the error.  I
> have 39 full media.  Do I need to get additional tapes or can 
> I just rewrite
> over them?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chester
> 
>  
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