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Mo_Chowdhury
Level 4
12 years ago

Ready; no media servers are available - BE 2010 R3 Server 2008 SP2 (x64)

  Hi, I’m having a problem with Backup Exec and not backing up any jobs at all the moment – the job status states on all jobs (disks and tape) ‘Ready; no media servers are available’. I am runnin...
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  • Larry_Fine's avatar
    Larry_Fine
    12 years ago

    When device discovery is still happening, jobs will sit with "no media servers available".  therefore we need to focus on why your device discovery is taking so long or never completing.  Device discovery can take up to 20 minutes if there are communication issues with the hardware.

    When did this problem start?  What disk & tape are you using?  What connection method (SCSI, FC, SAS, etc).

    The adamm.log and tildbg.txt file would be very helpful if you can post them here.

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Larry_Fine
Level 6
12 years ago

When device discovery is still happening, jobs will sit with "no media servers available".  therefore we need to focus on why your device discovery is taking so long or never completing.  Device discovery can take up to 20 minutes if there are communication issues with the hardware.

When did this problem start?  What disk & tape are you using?  What connection method (SCSI, FC, SAS, etc).

The adamm.log and tildbg.txt file would be very helpful if you can post them here.