Rachel:
You need to stop your services, delete the tmp directory and restart the
services. I just had this happen last week.
Kathy
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:12:51 +1000
From: Rachel Polanskis <r.polanskis AT UWS.EDU DOT AU>
Subject: Re: Application "loses" apparently good index entries for tapes
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, bdeschanes wrote:
> When I launch the GUI application for the server hosting my stacker
> immediately after restarting the nsr services on the host, it shows good
> index information for the tapes, but moments after launching it switches all
> the tapes to "<not in media index>". At first I tried re-inexing the tapes,
> but it seems to act like they're really still in there. Unfortunately the
> backups then usually (90+% of the time) hang and send out a message "
> NetWorker media: (waiting) Waiting for 1 writable volumes to backup pool
> 'Default' tape(s) on ..."
>
> Just to be confusing, once every many tries it successfully starts backing up
> jobs, but still displays the "<not in media index" message next to the
> volumes. The system is running "NetWorker 7.4.2.Build.431 Network Edition/34"
> and has been working fine for many months. This started last week. I've reset
> the library, the scsi channel, and the NetWorker services MANY times in
> various orders and ways. I'm more or less keeping up with backups, but the
> required babysitting and "jiggling" of the library is keeping me from doing
> anything else... Any suggestions as to why it's doing this or how to correct
> it?
>
> I'm not new to backups, but this problem has me stumped. I'll keep digging,
> and if I figure it out on my own I'll update accordingly.
>
> Thanks in advance for any assistance!
I have the exact same version and the exact same problem.
I just do an "nsrjb -IE" and wait for it to finish. It is an extremely
annoying problem if it happens when
there are jobs waiting to run.
rachel
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