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chmeyerweck
2 months agoLevel 3
Hi,
As Nicolai said, the tape handling in NBU is that only emtpy/new or expired-so-free tapes are moved around pools automatically eg a tape from your daily pool is moved back to the scratch pool.
I'm in NBU since version 4.5 and I've never seen such a behavior.
When a tape gets assigned to a pool it stays in that particular pool until all images are expired.
I will try that in the lab tomorrow, assign a tape to the pool "TESTPOOL" and duplicate some images to that tape, afterwards I change the pool to the NetBackup pool and try a restore.
I think the restore will likely fail since I remember some like "requesting volume pool.." in the job logs.
I would definitely open a support case since that sounds like a bug.
Can you update to 10.4?
Please provide the output from the following command:
#/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies/available_media
And the bp.conf maybe there are some strange settings, file is at /usr/openv/netbackup/bp
conf
Kind regards,
Christopher Meyerweck
As Nicolai said, the tape handling in NBU is that only emtpy/new or expired-so-free tapes are moved around pools automatically eg a tape from your daily pool is moved back to the scratch pool.
I'm in NBU since version 4.5 and I've never seen such a behavior.
When a tape gets assigned to a pool it stays in that particular pool until all images are expired.
I will try that in the lab tomorrow, assign a tape to the pool "TESTPOOL" and duplicate some images to that tape, afterwards I change the pool to the NetBackup pool and try a restore.
I think the restore will likely fail since I remember some like "requesting volume pool.." in the job logs.
I would definitely open a support case since that sounds like a bug.
Can you update to 10.4?
Please provide the output from the following command:
#/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies/available_media
And the bp.conf maybe there are some strange settings, file is at /usr/openv/netbackup/bp
conf
Kind regards,
Christopher Meyerweck