Hi,

If your configuration is otherwise correct,
this can be caused by a stale resourceMDS allocation.

This can happen if an allocation is not properly cleared from EMM, 
usualy caused by crash of netbackup on the mediaserver during a tape operation.

Have  look at this forum post, esp. the first reply by Marianne van den Berg
which has pointers about how to troubleshoot this:

http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/netbackup-not-using-all-tape-drives

Rob Hagman.

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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of kanas
Sent: donderdag 5 juli 2012 20:31
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Job is waiting on a busy drive, when there is another 
drive.

Hi,

I am new to backups and netbackup. I learnt most of the stuff reading manuals 
and working with the netbackup front end in few days. I have a robotic library 
with 2 drives. Full backups are done on weekends and incremental backups are 
done on weekdays. There are 7 classes defined one for each server. The full 
backups on 6 classes complete quickly. But there one class which takes until 
Tuesday morning to complete. When the incremental jobs kick in evening of 
Monday 5 jobs complete and they use the other drive. But the 6th job gets 
queued and is waiting for the busy drive to be free. I checked the jobs and all 
the incremental jobs attributes are the same. I am at a loss why the 6th job is 
not using the free drive. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

SK

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