Ready; No idle devices are available

I didn't ask the question, but I had the same problem at a client location.  Thanks IHCRC.  Your post was right on target.  The disk used for the backup was limited to read-only operation.  I changed it and the backup began.  Such a simple solution!

On the Home tab, check the Active Alerts section.  Be sure the Time is set to show All because the default is 'Last 12 hours'.  Then see if there is a pending alert pertaining to a recent job.  You can also see if there are pending alert by looking at the Alerts count for each type at the bottom edge of the UI.

Also, check if the Job Queue is on hold.  Go to the 'Backup and Restore' tab and look to the right side of ribbon.  There is a 'Hold Job Queue' button there...see if there if it's box is checked.  If it were, you should have also noticed the warning 'The job queue is on hold' when viewing the Storage.

Hope this helps.

make sure no other jobs are running at the same time and that device is not busy, you can check this in device details

Take a look under your storage. Right click a storage device, and select Details from the context menu. For each device, check and see if "Limit Backup Exec to read-only operations" is set to yes. If so, toggle to no.

I have no idea why BE does this, but it does, and each time it's a pain to find it again. The software will work flawlessly for weeks and then suddenly decide everything is read-only for its purposes.

Yep, I've tried pausing/unpausing with the same result.

Have you tried to pause/Unpause the server and the devices?

Yeah, I'm trying disk target right now to just a local folder.  Everything is online, Test Run works, Inventory works, everything but the backup works.  Tape is the same result.  I've reboot the services, rebooted the server, etc..

Cyprus

         Please verify that the device that youre backing up to be it tape or a disk location is online/not disabled and unpaused.

Below are screen shots of devices paused /disabled... found under the storage tab

both can be remied by right clicking and either unpausing or enabling... try running job again

"No Idle devices are available" is typically not a credential issue.  It indicates that your storage targets are not available.  This could be offline or busy stuff on the storage tab.  Or it could be jobs that are targetted to old/missing devices.

What tape are you using?  drives?  robots?

Is your disk target just a simple local backup-to-disk folder?

Hello Cyprusg21,

Please restart the backup exec services and once. Please go to the devices and try to Pause and Unpause the Server name there. Please try an inventory on the drives and see if that works.