> From: Jason K. Schechner [mailto:jason AT parabon DOT com]
> Sent: Friday 22 December, 2000 18:45
> I'm running NetBackup 3.2 on Solaris with a 40-tape AIT-2 library.
> When I run available_media it shows me that about half a dozen tapes
> still have the majority of their space free (40g out of 50g) and we're
> only consuming about 4gb/day. However, one of my backups is failing regularly
> with a status of 96: "unable to allocate new media for backup, storage unit
> has
> none available".
> Since I'm still testing, configuring and setting things up all of my backups
> are drawing from the "Netbackup" pool, so it's not that one pool is full while
> others aren't.
>
> What could be causing this and how do I fix it?
space is not the only criteria involved when MM is looking
for a tape. pool, vg, stage of the media, retension are also
considered.start. check Sysadmin Guide, Appendix C, and the
paragraph "How NetBackup selects media..." for details.
first thing to check would be the retention.
fx
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