I am new to netbackup and I have the following problem, over the weekend my 
backups did fail. Here what it did say:
unable to allocate new media for backup, storage unit has none available(96)

so I did take al ook at the web to search for the following message and I got 
few links that i did follow:
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/277442.htm
and
http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1058612&page=6

first did describe not to have SCRATCH pool in policy and the other to expire 
media. here is my situation since I think I did check both and I just dont know 
what else to do.

after running available_media:
bash-2.05# ./bin/goodies/available_media
media   media   robot   robot   robot   side/   ret    size     status
  ID     type    type      #     slot    face    level  KBytes
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
CatalogBackup pool

DUPLICATE pool

JZ0637  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       3     203233817        ACTIVE
JZ0643  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       3     43369407 ACTIVE
JZ0638  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       3     190043968 
ACTIVE/MPX
JZ0642  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       3     626158596 
ACTIVE/MPX
JZ0648  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       3     1040615086 
ACTIVE/MPX
JZ0654  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       3     868904920 
ACTIVE/MPX
JZ0622  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       -     -        AVAILABLE
JZ0624  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       -     -        AVAILABLE
JZ0625  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       -     -        AVAILABLE
GK5572  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       3     1007233239       FULL
JZ0641  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       3     724772544        FULL
JZ0646  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       3     1013013825       FULL
JZ0652  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       3     1014794010       FULL
JZ0636  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       3     1092270993       FULL/MPX
JZ0640  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       3     1125466586       FULL/MPX
JZ0647  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       3     813393228        FULL/MPX
JZ0653  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       3     804612860        FULL/MPX

DataStore pool

EMAIL pool

JZ0639  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       3     114975396        ACTIVE
JZ0645  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       3     11421106 ACTIVE
JZ0650  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       3     12637426 ACTIVE
JZ0655  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       3     523412410        ACTIVE
GK5560  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       -     -        AVAILABLE
GK5561  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       -     -        AVAILABLE
JZ0629  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       -     -        AVAILABLE
GK5573  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       3     617454778        FULL
JZ0644  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       3     616419194        FULL
JZ0649  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       3     615486205        FULL

NetBackup pool

GK5533  HCART3   TLD      0       21     -       -     -        AVAILABLE
GK5576  HCART3   TLD      0       23     -       -     -        AVAILABLE
GK5577  HCART3   TLD      0       24     -       -     -        AVAILABLE
GK5578  HCART3   TLD      0       25     -       -     -        AVAILABLE
GK5579  HCART3   TLD      0       26     -       -     -        AVAILABLE
GK5580  HCART3   TLD      0       27     -       -     -        AVAILABLE

None pool

CLN001  HC3_CLN  TLD      0       29     -       -     -        AVAILABLE
GK5500  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       -     -        AVAILABLE
GK5501  HCART3   TLD      0       1      -       -     -        AVAILABLE
GK5502  HCART3   TLD      0       2      -       -     -        AVAILABLE
GK5505  HCART3   TLD      0       5      -       -     -        AVAILABLE
GK5506  HCART3   TLD      0       6      -       -     -        AVAILABLE
GK5508  HCART3   TLD      0       8      -       -     -        AVAILABLE
GK5509  HCART3   TLD      0       15     -       -     -        AVAILABLE
GK5515  HCART3   TLD      0       16     -       -     -        AVAILABLE
GK5518  HCART3   TLD      0       11     -       -     -        AVAILABLE
GK5526  HCART3   TLD      0       17     -       -     -        AVAILABLE
GK5527  HCART3   TLD      0       18     -       -     -        AVAILABLE

SCRATCH pool

GK5534  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       -     -        AVAILABLE
GK5540  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       -     -        AVAILABLE
GK5562  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       -     -        AVAILABLE
GK5563  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       -     -        AVAILABLE
GK5564  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       -     -        AVAILABLE
GK5565  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       -     -        AVAILABLE
GK5568  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       -     -        AVAILABLE
GK5569  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       -     -        AVAILABLE
GK5570  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       -     -        AVAILABLE
GK5571  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       -     -        AVAILABLE
JZ0623  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       -     -        AVAILABLE
JZ0631  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       -     -        AVAILABLE
JZ0632  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       -     -        AVAILABLE
JZ0633  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       -     -        AVAILABLE
JZ0634  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       -     -        AVAILABLE
JZ0635  HCART3   NONE     -       -      -       -     -        AVAILABLE

TEST pool



ok, so I have tapes in my SCRATCH pool, so then I am trying to make sure that 
media lets say JZ0631 is expired for sure so I run the following command:
bash-2.05# ./bpexpdate -m JZO631 -d 0
Are you SURE you want to delete JZO631 y/n (n)? y
requested media id was not found in the EMM database


when I type bpimmedia I get nothing.
bash-2.05# ./bpimmedia -mediaid JZ0631
no entity was found

What am I doing wrong? I cant restart my backups because it does claim I have 
no 
media, how can I fix this problem?

Thanks for any help. I have support with netbackup so i can call them but I 
wanted to see if I could get help from this group first... Thanks again for any 
hints or suggestions.

Chris