James,
    I posted a msg about this some months back -- what you'll have to do is
to manually
expire the "partial" media or more and more will be gobbled up (whether they
are eventually
recycled is not clear).

    What I think you are seeing is the lack of an "outer loop" in the N/B
code that, having
detected a media error, should rewind not just to the beginning of the tape
(which is
indeed re-tried as you see) but also to the entire "tape set" used so far.
I see this behaviour
on version 3.4 and I'm hoping it will be gone when I upgrade.

Cheers,

Richard.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James M Sherman" <james_sherman AT uhc DOT com>
To: <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 3:55 PM
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Tapes not being reused after '96' error?


>
> Hello,
>
> We're seeing situations where backup jobs fail with a '96' (unable to
alocate
> new media), and when new tapes
> from the same pool are imported into the silo to satisfy the deficiency
and the
> job re-ran, the job does not use
> any of the old tapes from the previous run.
>
> What is happening here?   Why are those tapes being ignored in the second
run?
> The situation results in,
> for example, a job requiring 10 tapes failing because only 9 tapes from
that
> pool were in the silo - in the next run,
> 10 new tapes will need to be imported, not just one.
>
> Any thoughts?  Thanks!
>
> -Jay
> james_sherman AT uhc DOT com
>
>
>
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