Hello, Was wondering if anyone ever seen this one before? "Physical Volume Library drive not found" backup has been running fine. I just added an additional server to backup to the current schedule , all within 1 job. And then started getting this error. The server is an IBM X346, Windows Server 2003 Standrd Edition with SP1. Tape drive is an IBM LTO 2 drive connected to an Adaptec card that's installed into the server. I'm running Symantec Backup Exec 10d for Windows. Any help is appreciated! Thanks, Bob
we too are having the same issue. We have Win 2003 server, BUExec 10d, 10.1 Rev 5629 SP2. It was running fine and now starting last night we get the Physical Volume Library Drive Not Found. We have a Dell 132T Library with two Devices. We have the second device disabled. The inventory goes fine for the first device, slot one. All the other slots look at device 2.
Did your tape drive go offline and have to be re-added or has there been any other changes other than adding another server to your existing backp? I have seen this on my VXA tape changer when my tape drive went offline. I added the drive back in and got the Physical Volume Library drive not found failures. Under the Devices tab > Storage Devices > Device Pools I had to add my drive back in. Also make sure your backup job is pointed to the same device that is shown in the previous step.
well what I finally did was delete the device from the Server's Device manager. It was using the Dell drivers. I had read that Veritas doesn't like the dell drivers. I then loaded it again and used the generic driver and BAM! It's seeing the drive again.
I had the same problem. Besides resolving the problem using the tip above I also had to restart every veritas backupexec service under the Services Tab in Administrative Tools! If I didnt restart the services I wouldnt get the backup to start again! Now it is solved =).
