Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] unable to allocate new media for backup

2004-12-08 07:35:15
Subject: [Veritas-bu] unable to allocate new media for backup
From: StewaBC AT NORTHAMERICA.Stortek DOT com (Stewart, Brian C)
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 07:35:15 -0500
>  Never ever trust available_media its never correct for 3.4.1 or 4.5(mp6)
its so far off it makes me sick! I show many tapes as DB tapes that were
never DB

NetBackup's available_media "script" has a simple loop hole. If the Master
Server can not communicate with the volumeDB (vmd) of a media server while
it is performing the available_media report it will mark the tape as a DB
backup tape. This was done as a time saving step. If the script waited the 5
minutes for vmd to time out the script would take hours or days to run.

Basically any time a tape is wrongfully marked as a DB backup it is because
the master server had a problem quickly identifying the tape.

You should investigate that tape, you may find you have NetBackup services
offline on a media server.

Brian