Additionally,  if the tapes had been previously used for TAR or some other
function, you need to put in ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE parameters in the bp.conf
file.

Patrick Whelan 
Senior Consultant
VERITAS ECS 
[NBU (with extensions) and Storage Migrator for UNIX] 
pwhelan AT veritas DOT com
"Of course this is just my opinion, I could be wrong." - Dennis Miller
"Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom" -
Bergen Evans


                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Dennis Dwyer [mailto:dfdwyer AT tecoenergy DOT com]
                Sent:   Monday, July 09, 2001 8:41 PM
                To:     veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu;
rguyon777 AT yahoo DOT com
                Cc:     roland.guyon AT sscims DOT com
                Subject:        Re: [Veritas-bu] 96 errors

                Have you been experiencing excessive media write errors?
These usually manifest themselves as physical media errors or tape drive
errors. If you're running on a UNIX server you can go to
/usr/openv/netbackup/db/media and cat the errors file. That will show you
any problems you've been having with the media or the drives. If you have
been having media or drive errors, NetBackup places a tape in a FROZEN
status after so many tries (I forget how many). That's as good a starting
place as any I guess. You can UNFREEZE any tapes that were erroneously
FROZEN once you figure out what was causing them to be frozen in the first
place. That's about all I can offer up. I'm sure there are several other
possibilities. This is the one that has plagued me the most.

                Regards,
                Dennis

                Quote: "Time is not a test of the truth"
                Translation: Just because you've always done it that way,
doesn't make it right

                Dennis F. Dwyer
                Enterprise Storage Manager
                Tampa Electric Company

                (813) 225-5181  - Voice
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                Visit our corporate website at www.tecoenergy.com

                >>> Roland Guyon <rguyon777 AT yahoo DOT com> 07/09/01 01:01PM 
>>>
                Please help, 

                I have been receiving 96 error codes (no media/tape
                available for backup) however i have at least 20 to 30

                tapes in the library. 
                Dug into it a little and found out that tape selection

                is rejecting about 95% of the available tapes due to
                being frozen, suspended, or max mount.
                I only have maybe 7 tapes which are max mounted.
                Why are the rest frozen or suspended?
                Any tips on how to get to the bottom of this?
                I have looked at bmtp logs, ran support and available
                media but does not tell me much, only shows me a few
                96 error code.
                what should i look for?

                thank you,
                -roland 

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