Duplicating tapes fails: INF - Cannot obtain resources for this job : error [167]

[PaulStevens]

Netbackup 9.1.0.1 on Linux master server.  There are no other media servers in the environment.

We are replacing our old LTO5 tape library with a new LTO8 library.

Most of our backups for this account are short term so we will just let them age out.  But a few are long-term retention and need to be copied over to new tape before we decommission the old library since the LTO8 drives won't be able to read the old LTO5 tapes.

We have no disk storage units, only tape.

So...  both libraries are connected to the master server, there is plenty of available media and all drives are up.  There are available drives in both libraries.  I can write backups to either.

Yet, when I issue the command, it says it can't obtain resources.

[root@wtcbakalb001 admincmd]# ./bpduplicate -backupid WTCDSPALB001_1598047243 -cn 1 -dcn 2 -dstunit wtcbakalb001-hcart3-robot-tld-1
Duplicate started 04/15/2024 14:58:36
Activity monitor job id = 28624
INF - Cannot obtain resources for this job : error [167]

[PaulStevens · Accepted solution]

Apparently bpduplicate won't grab a tape from the SCRATCH pool.  I created a new pool ArchiveLTO8 and put a tape in it.  Then I reran the command adding a destination pool, and it is running now.   

[root@wtcbakalb001 admincmd]# ./bpduplicate -backupid WTCDSPALB001_1598047243 -cn 1 -dcn 2 -dstunit wtcbakalb001-hcart3-robot-tld-1 -dp ArchiveLTO8
Duplicate started 04/15/2024 15:55:39
Activity monitor job id = 28629
INF - Destination storage unit wtcbakalb001-hcart3-robot-tld-1 on host wtcbakalb001
INF - Duplicating policy WTC_WIN_Fileserver schedule Full_Archive backup id WTCDSPALB001_1598047243 copy 1 created on 08/21/2020 18:00:43 on source media id W00413