Thank you all for your advice/assistance. It turns out it was a pure human
error. The person who did the tapes messed up and put some tapes in the
slots which were already occupied (the real tape was in the drive). Hence,
the Netbackup got confused, because it couldn't load the tapes in (since
there were tapes already in the drive). Once, I emptied the silo and
re-inventoried it started working.

Thanks again.


George

-----Original Message-----
From: Badinter, George 
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 5:00 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Tape management - Frozen Tapes?



 Here is the situation - I am running 4.5 MP2 on Solaris 2.8. Suddenly, my
media server started running out of tapes - I get error 96. After some
investigation I had discovered that all the tapes are frozen. I unfroze the
tapes, expired them and delete them from silo. re-inventory the silo - the
tapes shows up ok. However, as soon as, I start backup it freezes all the
tapes again with the following messages (from my both log):

15:45:26.525 [8780] <2> logconnections: BPDBM CONNECT FROM
169.188.0.113.54263 TO 169.188.0.70.13721
15:45:26.682 [8799] <2> io_set_recvbuf: setting receive network buffer to
65535 bytes
15:45:26.744 [8780] <16> write_backup: FREEZING media id DHB222, it is
unmountable and cannot be used for backups
15:45:26.777 [8780] <2> add_to_vmhost_list: added camsasprt05 to vmhost list
15:45:26.901 [8780] <2> select_media: getting new media id for retention
level 1


Help ?


Thanks.


George

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