08-16-2016 08:16 AM
I was curious do all the media status of the tapes in the robot need to be "active"? We do a weekly tape exchange so not sure why netbackup does not eject out all the tapes that are Frozen, suspended etc. I also keep getting a backup failure "96 unable to allocate new media for backup, storage unit has none available" maybe this is caused by the inactive tapes in the robot? Thanks.
08-16-2016 10:32 AM
"I was curious do all the media status of the tapes in the robot need to be "active"?
Correct. A media status with "Active" means it is available to be written to, whereas "Frozen", "Suspended", or anything with "Full" means it is not available.
"We do a weekly tape exchange so not sure why netbackup does not eject out all the tapes that are Frozen, suspended etc."
That completely depends on how you are ejecting media. Is it scripted, are you using Vault, a manual process, etc? My reccomendation is to always remove Frozen and Suspended tapes from the library unless you need them for a restore. Also, try to find out why tapes are going Frozen.
"I also keep getting a backup failure "96 unable to allocate new media for backup, storage unit has none available" maybe this is caused by the inactive tapes in the robot? Thanks."
Try to get the following info and post the output
Under /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpstulist
bppllist <name of policy that is failing> -U
bpstulist -label <name of storage unit> -U
/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/tpconfig -d
08-16-2016 11:56 AM
08-17-2016 10:32 PM
You need to make sure there are sufficient tapes recalled (through vault) or manually for daily backups.
There is a possibility that images in media may be expired but still sitting on assigned volume pools.
Try bpexpdate -deassignempty