I get that message when attempting to work with tapes when the device has "Auto 
Media Management" set to Yes.  I set it to No temporarily, do what I need to do 
and then set it back.
--Shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On 
Behalf Of MIchael Leone
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 12:45 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Tape drive says "monitoring"?

I have a Win2003 server, running NW 7.4 SP1, with a single LTO-4 tape drive. NW 
is showing the drive as "monitoring". My backup job won't run, claiming that I 
need to label a different tape (I got the dread "too many open files in 
system", for which no one has ever seemed to find an answer for). Problem is, I 
can't seem to re-label the current tape, as it says that it is "monitoring", 
whatever that means. And I have no other spares at that site, since the order 
for more tapes doesn't come in until later this week.


--
Michael Leone
Network Administrator, ISM
Philadelphia Housing Authority
2500 Jackson St
Philadelphia, PA 19145
Tel:  215-684-4180
Cell: 215-252-0143
<mailto:michael.leone AT pha.phila DOT gov>

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