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Re: [Veritas-bu] Status 52 but scratch available

2007-07-19 07:22:41
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Status 52 but scratch available
From: Dave Markham <dave.markham AT fjserv DOT net>
To: "WEAVER, Simon (external)" <simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:12:24 +0100
Yeah its just one master/media server with network based clients.

There are no tapes stuck in the drives and tpconfig -d shows all up and
using robtest shows no tapes in the drives either so i dont think its a
stuck tape :(

D

WEAVER, Simon (external) wrote:
> Dave
> Just a quick shot, what does tpconfig -d show? Is it all jobs from this
> Server
>
> Regards
>
> Simon Weaver
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Dave 
> Markham
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 11:52 AM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Status 52 but scratch available
>
>
> Netbackup 5.0Mp7 on Solaris9 servers with Solaris clients and Windows
> clients. Connected to L25 unit.
>
> Can anyone explain why i am getting all my jobs fail with status 52 yet i
> have scratch available?  I run ITC so 2 drives are used at the same time.
> Now looking in /usr/openv/netbackup/db/media/errors i can see a positioning
> error for a tape which is assigned to my daily pool and is what the jobs are
> trying to use. what i dont get is why are jobs failing and not just marking
> that tape as bad, freezing it and picking another?
>
> Any ideas? I dont know the criteria for tapes to be frozen as on other
> systems they seem to freeze quite easily :(
>
> Dave
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Yeah its
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