tape drive allocations

Question

One of our tape drives experienced an issue with a tape getting flagged. This caused the drive to go down, but now only 1 of our 3 tape drives are running. I believe there may be allocations on the tape drives. Can I run nbrbutil -resetall command to reset all of the drives without affecting any current backups going to disk?

I really need to get these reset and not affect any current backup running.

nicolai · Answer

hi&nbsp;bcsupport&nbsp;You need to stop all NBU activities before running&nbsp;&nbsp;nbrbutil -resetall, even disk based&nbsp;backups have allocations.But you don't have to run nbrbutil -reset all, you can release a single allocation:How to release a device allocation in NetBackup using nbrbutil without using the resetAll parameterhttps://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100023404&nbsp;

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