Duplica to Standalone Tape Drive

[rafanto]

Hello,

Please help with this query, if we have a standalone tape drive and we execute a duplication to this drive, if it is full, will the backup fail? Or will it pause and wait for another tape to load to continue the backup?

Thank you

Rafael

[Nicolai]

Netbackup will wait for the tape to be replaced and then continue the backup/duplication.

[quebek]

Hi

As far as my memory goes it should wait for next tape. Current one which is full should have been ejected, and you should see prompt to insert new scratch one to the drive. Once done you can approve the mount request to the drive from device monitor.

check this out  below is a quote from here

"If a standalone drive does not contain media or if a required volume is not available
to a robot, a mount request appears in the Pending requests. (In the NetBackup
web UI, open Tape storage > Device monitor). An operator can then find the
volume, mount it manually, and assign it to the drive."

[rafanto]

Hello Nicolai,

Thank you for your response, but we have had some events in which a volume pool has a single tape assigned and we got an error about duplicating it when the tape was full, but could it be because this parameter is set to 1?

Maximum number of partially full media in 1, because the default value is zero, which does not limit the number of full media that are allowed in the pool.

Regards