Hi,

It would be helpful if you could show the error information for each type 
of failed job, 200, 800 etc.  800 usually means a tape drive or robot is 
unavailable (resources/etc).. Did you set it up/configure it correctly?

Justin

On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Justin Piszcz wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It is discussed here:
> http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/two-way-mirrors-of-external-mailing-lists-3/symantec-netbackup-18/media-id-generation-50402/
>
> You need to fix your vm.conf, delete all the media (since you said its not
> been used yet) and re-inventory with the correct barcode information..
>
> But I suspect something else may be going on as well.
>
> Justin.
>
> On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, McDonald II, James F. wrote:
>
>> NBU has been writing to disk for a while, but I just recently tried
>> setting up the tape backups, for off-site storage.  I have run
>> inventories and it says the volume configuration is up-to-date with the
>> contents.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:55 AM
>> To: McDonald II, James F.
>> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Cannot Write to Tape
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please include the list in the future.
>> It appears you need to limit your labels to 6 characters.
>> Check the volume manager manual, you need to edit vm.conf for NBU 6.x++
>> the labels for LTOX should be no more than 6 characters long, if your
>> barcode reader reads more than the first 6 characters, you need to limit
>>
>> it.
>>
>> BTW, is this a new environment?
>> Or did this just start happening?
>> If it just started happening, have you run an inventory and retried the
>> backup?
>>
>> Justin.
>>
>> On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, McDonald II, James F. wrote:
>>
>>> Here is what I got when I ran the test:
>>>
>>> Opening {4,0,33,1}
>>> MODE_SENSE Complete
>>> Enter tld commands (? returns help information)
>>> s d
>>> drive 1 (addr 32) access = 1 Contains Cartridge = Yes
>>> Barcode = 000001L4
>>> SCSI ID from drive 1 is 0
>>> READ_ELEMENT_STATUS Complete
>>>
>>> I tried double-checking the barcode result, by doing a robot
>> inventory.
>>> 000001L4 was not included in the inventory, but I'm almost positive
>> it's
>>> in there.
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:12 AM
>>> To: WEAVER, Simon (external)
>>> Cc: McDonald II, James F.; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>>> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Cannot Write to Tape
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Reboot the master, run robtest and run "s d" does it show the drives
>> OK?
>>>
>>> Justin.
>>>
>>> On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, WEAVER, Simon (external) wrote:
>>>
>>>> Have you rebooted the Master just in case?
>>>> Anything changed to cause this problem?
>>>> Have you enabled any logging?
>>>>
>>>> Simon
>>>>
>>>> ________________________________
>>>>
>>>> From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>>>> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of
>>> McDonald
>>>> II, James F.
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 1:43 PM
>>>> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>>>> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Cannot Write to Tape
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> My backups write to disk without any problem, but when I try to run a
>>>> Tape Backup I get one of three status codes: 200, 252 or 800.  I have
>>>> researched all three and still have not been able to come up with a
>>>> solution.  I am running NBU 6.5 for Windows on a Dell 2950 with
>> Server
>>>> 2003 as the OS.  The tape drive is a Dell PV-124T.  Diagnostics run
>>> from
>>>> the tapeloader all seem to pass and the inventories run from within
>>> NBU
>>>> all seem to be correct, but I can't get anything to begin to write.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> James McDonald
>>>>
>>>> System Administrator
>>>>
>>>> SAIC - IISBU
>>>>
>>>> 410-312-2232
>>>>
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