Ah - that appears to be it.  All of my tapes for the given retention
period are full.  I hadn't even thought of that.  Thank you!


On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Dennis Dwyer wrote:

> The only thing I can think of off hand would be to look at your
> retention periods. NetBackup will not mix retention periods on a tape
> unless you force it (which I wouldn't recommend). If all the tapes
> that have space don't match the retention period you're going after,
> and there are no other tapes available in the storage unit, you might
> get the "No Available Media" message.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Dennis F. Dwyer
> Enterprise Storage Manager
> Tampa Electric Company
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> >>> "Jason K. Schechner" <jason AT parabon DOT com> 12/22/00 12:45PM >>>
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 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? 
> 
> Thanks, and happy holidays!
> 
> -Jason
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