Davina:

Your suggestion of defining a adv-file device in the Default pool worked
and I saw the client name who was requesting that pool.
Thanks for the tip.

John Ryder, Systems Administrator, Computing and Information Technology,
            University of Vermont, John.Ryder AT uvm DOT edu 802-656-1183


On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Davina Treiber wrote:

> John Ryder wrote:
>
> >Hello:
> >
> >This message just recently popped up on our Alert screen:
> >
> >  media critical event: Waiting for 1 writable volumes to backup pool
> >  'Default' tape(s) or disk(s) on koala.uvm.edu
> >
> >We can't mount a tape for the Default pool because we don't have one
> >defined. Further, koala is a storage node with two raids attached but no
> >tape drives.
> >
> >This usually happens when I've messed up the config for a new client or
> >when some user is doing a save command without specifying the pool name
> >parameter. All the nightly backups are running fine. I'm stumped.
> >
> >My question: any way to tell who is asking for this?  that is, how can I
> >find a client name, user name, or savegrp name connected with this mount
> >request, so I can bug someone (maybe myself!).
> >
> >
> >
>
> Ah just read your post again. A little more complicated when you have no
> tape drives, but it is possible to create a disk device and label up a
> volume to do as I suggested in my prevous post. A bit fiddly and
> annoying though.
>

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