BEXEC 2010 and Quantum SuperLoader3 inventory problem
I am having problem inventory the tape on my BEXEC. From devices tab, it shows all 16 slots.
Slot 16 has cleaning tape. I used to have 5 tapes in the SuperLoader before and it works fine. Until I filled up the slots and all my duplicate jobs (to tape) stop working. All the other 15 slots shows the tapes fine from Devices tab of BEXEC GUI.
However, when I selected a slot and choose "inventory", the inventory job looks like it hung and never finished. As monitoring the inventory job "running", I see it keeps showing the "in use" at the QUANTUM 1, but no tape/device shows for the "in use", it just shows for 1 second then disappears, then shows up again "in use" with no tape shows, doing that forever ...
I tried to ...
Shut down the superloader
Shut down the backup server
Turned on superloader and let it finished loading 'till "system ready"
Turned on the backup server
Same problem happens.
Any idea, please help
Just to summarize what had happened here is that you had filled all the slots in the library. But there was another tape stuck in the Tape drive.
Durin Inventory every tape is moved from slots to the tape drive and back to the same slot. In this case as the tape drive already had a tape stuck in there, so other tape could not be moved. And there was no empty slot for the tape to be moved from Tape drive to the slot.
When you removed the tape from slot 1 and ran the Inventory, it moved the tape which was stuck up in the tape drive to that slot 1. So now slot 1 is Filled and tape drive is empty so that other tapes and go in and go out of the tape drive.
So instead of 17 you should be using only 16 tapes in the library at a time.
Hope this clears your doubt.....!!!
Thanks,
-Sush...