Increase or unset the mount media timeout option?

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Kevin Whittaker wrote:

> All,
>
> Ok, I have a NetBackup 5.1MP6 environment with 27 Media servers that
> only back themselves up usually for ORACLE databases.
>
> I have 1 L700e with 11 9940B tape drives, and a EMC CDL720 which is a
> virtual tape library.
>
> I backup to the CDL and vault to the L700.  I have always done the
> alternate read configuration so that my vaulting all occurs on the
> master server.
>
> Let's take 3 media servers which had a virtual L700e with 20 drives
> configured for them and the master server.
>
> The master server had 4 dedicated tape drives, and each media server had
> 4 dedicated tape drives.  I had the master server have 4 drives for
> backups and to access the tapes from the 3 media servers during
> vaulting.
>
> ** Now **  I have configured that robot that had 20 total drives as SSO
> drives.  The master server, and all 3 media servers have access to all
> 20 drives.
>
> In the past, when a tape was in use from the virtual robot by vaulting
> the backup would just say it could not find the tape and continue.
>
> Now that we have the whole robot in SSO, the backups are waiting for the
> mounting of the tape and timing out instead of going to the next
> available tape!
>
> Does anybody know how to avoid this issue?
>
> Kevin
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