On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Andrey Halezov wrote:

> Dear NetBackup experts,
> I am trying to bpduplicate from disk to tape (NetBackup 3.4 Solaris 8)
> and getting error 96 - unable to allocate new media for backup.
>
> At the moment the only tape drive is running backup, but I expect the
> duplicate to use the same tape.
> The backup I am trying to duplicate is of the same type which is
> currently running, so I can't understand why backup and duplicate
> can't share the same tape. I run 2 simalteneous backups on this tape
> drive every night.
>
>
> Thank you,
> Andrey
>
>
> root@bh-ap2>/netbackup/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpduplicate
> -dstunit mktdb1_L1000   -backupid sh-int2_1206317428
> Duplicate started Wed Mar 26 17:32:35 2008
> INF - Destination storage unit mktdb1_L1000 on host bh-ap2.
> INF - Duplicating class Unix-servers, schedule
> dailyINCR_SunMonTueWedThuSat_2000_2weeks (sh-int2_1206317428) created
> 03/23/2008 20:10:28, path /mnt_backup_c3t11s6.
> INF - write host bh-ap2: unable to allocate new media for backup,
> storage unit has none available (96)
> INF - Duplicate of backup id sh-int2_1206317428 failed, unable to
> allocate new media for backup, storage unit has none available (96).
>
> INF - Status = no images were successfully processed.
>
> root@bh-ap2>echo $?
> 191
> root@bh-ap2>
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Do you have a global scratch pool, scratch tapes are indeed available?
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