I've seen this twice in two separate installations. 

The first time we thought that someone had either gone in and either
maliciously or ignorantly changed the setup. I logged a call with Veritas on
this the second time it happened and they could not give me a definite
answer as to what would cause it, but it seemed like it has been seen and
logged before.

I have been unable to reproduce this problem when testing though so I do not
have a clue what would have caused it. It really is bad that the media
database can mix itself up like this.

Jason Cordes
LeTigre Computing
713.681.8844
jason.cordes AT letigre DOT com

-----Original Message-----
From: Kramer, Dale [mailto:Dale_Kramer AT steris DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 2:31 PM
To: Veritas Users NetBackup (E-mail)
Cc: Gravizi, Thomas
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Could it have been sunspots or solar flares?


NetBackup 3.4.2
Solaris 2.6
Separate master and media server

All of a sudden backups were failing on this media server with the error
"Unable to allocate new media, storage unit has none available".  After some
investigation it was found:

1.  The robot definition was gone from the media server.
2.  The drives were renamed and the paths were switched around.  Also the
4mm drive on the server was now defined. And the 4mm drive on the master was
now defined even though it strictly controls the robots.
3.  The volume host was changed from the master server to the local media
server.
4.  The barcode rules changed the default pool from scratch back to
netbackup.

And I think that was all.  Anybody have any idea what might have caused
this?  Nobody was fooling with NetBackup at the time this happened.

thanx,
dale

Dale P. Kramer
Senior Enterprise Systems Analyst
STERIS Corporation
5960 Heisley Rd.
Mentor, OH 44060
440-392-7082

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.

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