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[Veritas-bu] Weird behavior with Catalog Backup

2004-10-20 11:59:03
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Weird behavior with Catalog Backup
From: juanino AT yahoo DOT com (Jerry)
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 08:59:03 -0700 (PDT)
 bpsyncinfo -U

or through the gui, change the tape you are using for
the db backups.

--- "Lewick, Taylor" <tlewick AT hrblock DOT com> wrote:

> Hi all.  Haven't seen this one before...
> 
> We noticed recently that several of our Catalog
> Backups had been failing
> with status 52.  "time out waiting for media manager
> to mount volume".
> We then noticed that half of the Catalog backups
> were failing, and it
> was always with the same media, DB0007.  So I had an
> operator eject
> DB0007 and mark it as offsite via the GUI.  I wanted
> to examine the
> tape, see if it was damaged since it could never be
> loaded.
> 
> Well this morning the Catalog backup runs, and its
> now trying to mount
> DB0007.  Any idea why it is trying to mount a tape
> that is out of the
> library and is marked as being offsite?
> 
> Is the default behavior to keep using the same tape
> for a catalog backup
> until it is filled up?  If so, short of deleting
> this tape, how can I
> tell NetBackup to not use this piece of media for a
> catalog backup?
> Remove it from the volume pool?
> 
> Any response is appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Taylor 
> 
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