Hello,
We have been running BackupExec 8.6 onsite for three years with no problems. This morning I find a backup job waiting for a tape. The media set the job is using has 28 days overwrite protection and 7 days Append time Left set on the tape pool. When I left last might I have the current tape being used and one tape available.
This morning I find the current tape used and the next tape in line used, and the last job waiting for a tape. Reports show the available tape was only used for part of the job, (1Gb), but would not allow the next job to append to that tape which should have 74Gb free: tapes are DLTIV, hardware compression on.
Things I have found out.
1) If I take a tape from another media set and move it into the problem media set it shows its append time as available.
2) If I take a tape from the problem media set and move it into the another media set it shows its no append time as available.
3) setting append time to Infinite shows none in the problem media set.
4) If I go to the Device tab and look at the robot cartridge slots. the tapes in the problem media set SHOW their append time that is left.
Things that I have done Inventory, catalog, shutdown and restarted the BKUPEXEC services. reset the append times to no avail. Has any one seen this happen before.
Thank you in advance for your assistance.