BackupExec 2012 backup has status of "no devices ready"
I have a backupexec job that does both full and incremental backups to tape.
Tape library has only 1 drive.
For last few days the status of this job is showing "no devices ready" and the job keeps failing with a message simmilar to "This job is allowed to start only before xx:xx time and could not start in this time".
Yesterday morning I saw a message saying that "catalog 5" job was waiting for a tape number yyyyyy. But in active jobs I can't see a catalog job.
This tape was showing as faulty so I had taken that out.
I had also changed a few tapes in the library before this started happening. I may have run inventory at that time or import.
My question is that should I just run inventory job after the tapes have been replaced in library OR a import needs to be run as well.
And as a result of this import is it running a catalog in the background which is still looking for tape yyyyyy.
And as a result the tape drive is not ready for other jobs. How can I cancel this catalog job?
How can I troubleshoot this and resolve the issue?
Thanks Colin.
So if I restart the backupexec services now then would it get rid of this catalog job (unless it has schedule, in which case it will start again at that scheduled time). Is that correct?
And if this job has a schedule somehow then what woudl I need to do in that case?
In the jobs list there are a few inventory jobs that I can see which I had started (to do inventory after inserting tapes) but they come up as scheduled tasks (instead of "run now" type jobs). Why would that be the case?