Yup.

Just defeated this one in our environment.  I don't have the tech note
number anymore but here's what I snipped from it:

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Description:

Backups periodically fail with status 81 (Media Manager volume daemon (vmd)
is not active). Vmquery and vmcheckxxx/vmupdate may also fail.

The bptm logs show one or more entries similar to the following:
19:00:33.946 [5942] <16> string_to_record: cannot convert unrecognized
string: 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NBU
Default Rule
19:13:55.448 [6799] <16> string_to_record: expected 63 parameters, only
found 10

Workaround:
Create the file:
/usr/openv/volmgr/VMDB_QUERY_BUFFER_SIZE
and set 0 (zero) in the file.

(All NetBackup Servers)
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-M


-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Dibonge, 
Rudy
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 11:35 AM
To: 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Error Status 81


I am having this error message "media manager volume daemon not active"
during backup. I am using a windows 2000 media server with SP4. This error
message is intermittent. Has anyone seen this error message?
 
Thanks,
 
Rudy Dibonge
HMSHOST 
240-694-4220