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sheriff_e47's avatar
11 years ago

Repeated error 86 Netbackup 7.5

Hi All,   I have Netbackup 7.5 run in Solaris 10. There is these two online backup policies that use 7 tape drives streamingly. But, since 5 days ago, there's always error 86 appear among the s...
  • Marianne's avatar
    11 years ago

    We need messages file as well on this media server. Not much from NBU point of view in bptm log, other than  errors we've seen already.

    Just a thought - please check firmware versions on all tape drive using 'tpautoconf -t'.

    I have seen in the past where tapes were written in higher version tape drive and later loaded in older firmware tape drive to be appended to, that this drive was unable to position the tape.

    Problem was solved when all drives were upgraded to same firmware level.