Every few months I run into a problem where all my scratch tapes are gone. One day I'll have a dozen scratch tapes and the next they will all be gone and and backups will exit with status of 96. Using the bpexpdate command I will have to manually expire tapes that haven't reached their expiration date yet just to get more scratch tapes in the library. I have 70 policies defined and 37 clients. Maybe it's bad or old media.
I'm just putting a shout out to see if anyone else has run into this. Maybe my policies are not optimally configured.
NetBackup 6.5.6 running on Windows Server 2003 SP2
StorageTek L80 Tape Library
