Re: [Veritas-bu] WORM backups...

WORM media is unique in NBU. Make sure you read the SAG regarding all the specifics.

All 6.5 documentation: http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/290282.htm

Pull up the System Administrator's Guide for Windows, Volume 1 ( http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/290203.htm ) and start on page 589.

One thing for sure, you need to create a volume pool who's name begins with WORM so NBU knows to treat the media as such.

I'm afraid that if NBU thought the media in question were standard tapes, it treated them as such and in the course of operations the media may have been written in such a way that NBU can't continue to use them (i.e. an empty data block was written that NBU can normally overwrite, but now can't since it's a WORM tape).

-Tim

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:13 PM, dbergen <netbackup-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> wrote:

I have a backup policy that needs to use WORM tapes for archiving and I'm running into some trouble. When a backups kicks off all WORM tapes in the pool get marked as assigned and then the backup fails with status-96 no media available, if I add a regular LTO4 tape to the pool the backups run fine to that tape.

Netbackup 6.5.3 on W2K.

any help would be much appreciated,
dj

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