A tape would be frozen due to wither a media error or a drive error, or it
has an image that is not set to be over written.

Unfreeze the tapes and see what happens.  Also the case may be that the
backup begins and all available tapes are mounted and another job comes
along and needs to mount a tape, so it takes one of the emergency tapes.

Hope that helps,

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: O'Shea, Don [mailto:Don.OShea AT emergis DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 11:48 AM
To: 'veritas-bu AT eng.auburn DOT edu'
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Available Media


Can anybody help with a problem we are having. Our nightly backups are being
written to our emergency tapes even though their are available tapes in the
library. I ran the available_media command and the daily tapes show up as
available. They are in the loaded in the drives and assigned to the proper
pools. When looking through the bprd log files it does not appear that the
tape is even being queried. We use 2 DLT tapes a night and the first tape
selected is the emergency tape and the second then is one of the daily
tapes. Also is there a log file or report I could run that would tell me why
a tape was frozen? Any help I could get would be appreciated.
 

Don O'Shea
Sr. Operations Analyst
BCE Emergis
Financial Services Division
Phone: (905) 707-4000 Ext. 3765
Fax: (905) 707-4329
mailto:don.oshea AT emergis DOT com

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