Hi David,
I’ve seen similar problems in NBU 5.1, what I usually do is mark
all tapes in scratch pool and delete them, then do a new inventory of library
and place “new” tapes in scratch pool.
My experience is that for some reason tapes that have expired
but is not located in the library due to offsite storage or something like that
shows as available tape in scratch but no tapes are available.
It’s a quick test J
Regards
Kenneth
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Sent: 11. juni 2009 10:36
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Problem with allocating media on Netbackup 4.5
Hello,
since yesterday, I have a major problem with backing up on Netbackup 4.5
This morning, all the backups failed with error code 96, although there was
scratch tapes available for backups.
I can notice that :
- scratch tapes have been assigned to the requested pool automatically when the
backup started
- backup failed immediately with error code 96
- no entity found on the assigned tape
- if I try to change pool manually from scratch pool to "Full_I" pool
(needed for a host backup regarding the schedule policy), the same problem
occurs :
tape assigned in the right pool, but backup fails.
As we are running out of spare tapes, we have decided to reuse tapes that
haven't reached their retention level yet, but will soon.
To do so, I ran the following :
bpimmedia -L -mediaid <media_id>
-> to check images on tape : no entity was found
vmquery -deassignbyid <media_id> <source_pool> 0
When I run a bpmedialist -summary | grep <media_id>, I get an expiration
date that will occure in 1 week
When I run a bpexpdate -m <media_id> -d 0, I get the following :
requested media id was not found in NB media database and/or MM volume database
Do you think I have a Media manager or media database corruption ?
Thank you
David EGGER
Thales Alenia Space - Toulouse
DSI / Administration des Ressources
email : david.egger AT external.thalesaleniaspace DOT com
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