To follow up on my own email, it appears the problem was a couple of
drives that needed cleaning were mounting the tapes but unable to write to
them causing netbackup to mark them as write protected.

I manually cleaned each drive in the library and things are running smooth
now.

-- Steve


On Thu, 2 May 2002, Steve Mickeler wrote:

>
> os: solaris 8
> nbu: 3.4.2
> single server for master/media
>
> I have about 100 frozen tapes right now, most are being frozen due to
> netbackup deeming them write protected even though they arent.
>
> A sample from the bptm log shows:
>
> 03:44:41 [7405] <16> write_backup: FREEZING media id 000179, it is write
> protected and cannot be used for backups
>
> I can write to the tape via manually mounting it and writing to it.
>
> I did a 'mt weof' on the tape and the unloaded it and put it back in the
> library and netbackup used it just fine.
>
> Any insights into why this is happening and how to deal with it ?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -- Steve
>
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