On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, dbwallis wrote:
>
> I'm having a problem with my Netbackup system that's causing some jobs to
> fail, and I don't understand what's going on. Here's the basic sequence of
> events:
>
> Backup window arrives
>
> 2 policies fire off, policy A loads 4 volumes, policy B loads 2 (6
> drives total), both have additional jobs queued
>
> some jobs complete for both policies.... "A" now has 2 active jobs, "B"
> has 1
>
> none of the volumes that were mounted for the completed jobs have have
> been unmounted and returned to the library
>
> a queued job for policy B becomes active and tries to mount a volume
>
> all tape drives still have tapes loaded, eventually the mount request
> times out with error code 98
>
>
>
> Why doesn't Netbackup unmount the tapes for completed backups and free up the
> tape drive?
It does, after a default of 180 seconds I believe? You can disable the
media mount timeout.
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