On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, dbwallis wrote:

>
> I'm having a problem with my Netbackup system that's causing some jobs to 
> fail, and I don't understand what's going on. Here's the basic sequence of 
> events:
>
>       Backup window arrives
>
>       2 policies fire off, policy A loads 4 volumes, policy B loads 2 (6 
> drives total), both have additional jobs queued
>
>       some jobs complete for both policies.... "A" now has 2 active jobs, "B" 
> has 1
>
>       none of the volumes that were mounted for the completed jobs have have 
> been unmounted and returned to the library
>
>       a queued job for policy B becomes active and tries to mount a volume
>
>       all tape drives still have tapes loaded, eventually the mount request 
> times out with error code 98
>
>
>
> Why doesn't Netbackup unmount the tapes for completed backups and free up the 
> tape drive?

It does, after a default of 180 seconds I believe?  You can disable the 
media mount timeout.

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