Re: [Networker] Tape drive says "monitoring"?

Fazil.Saiyed AT anixter DOT com wrote on 02/25/2008 02:07:17 PM:

> 
> Hello, 
> If no backup job or other activity on the server, you can try and 
> restart networker services and try again, also is this the first 
> time you are seeing this error, does the pool have correct devices 
allocated ?

Tried that; no difference. Yes, the pool is correct; it was working fine, 
and with the tape that is in the drive now.

> Have you updated any drivers recently ? 

Nope.

> What does monitor tab log say about the operations  pending ? in the 
NMC. 

Nothing.

> Have you tried cmd line re-lable with extra vv to generate any 
> relevant error ? 

Not yet ... Turning off "Auto Media Management" seems to be helping ...

> HTH 
> 

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> I have a Win2003 server, running NW 7.4 SP1, with a single LTO-4 tape 
> drive. NW is showing the drive as "monitoring". My backup job won't run, 

> claiming that I need to label a different tape (I got the dread "too 
many 
> open files in system", for which no one has ever seemed to find an 
answer 
> for). Problem is, I can't seem to re-label the current tape, as it says 
> that it is "monitoring", whatever that means. And I have no other spares 

> at that site, since the order for more tapes doesn't come in until later 

> this week.
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> Philadelphia Housing Authority
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