Only one drive is being used. I have 8 available.

[AndresV]

Hi,

Could anyone help me with this..

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This number is getting bigger and bigger and only one drive is used at the time...

I already run this command Nbrbutil –reset ALL but still I have the issue.

[revarooo]

Have all the drives ever worked. Whats the settong for drives in your stu?

[Will_Restore]

Check this seting on your Storage Unit

Maximum concurrent write drives

[mph999]

When no jobs are running on the system, run 

nbrb_util -resetall

Occassionally reservations, even if not seen in nbrb_util -dump (under MDS section) get 'stuck'  - this will release them.

WANRNING - This will kill any running job, hence do it when no jobs are running, or you don;t mind what is running failing and having to restart

[AndresV]

Thanks guys,

1.Yes, the drives have worked before. The settings are:

• media server: any available
• Maximun concurrent write drives: 8
• enable multiplexing: 8

2. Maximun concurrent write drives: 8

[Genericus]

WOW, I thought I had issues when I had 3000 SLP queued up, you have 34K!

There are tons of places this can be impacted, you need to check the storage units to ensure there are no limts there.

You need to check per media server there are no limits there

I have had issues where tapes and drives have been reserved within NetBackup, like mentioned above,

nbrbutil -dump | grep for media/drive  - can show all your reservations. You may have to play junior detective and review the SLP to determine the source and destination tapes and storage units.

nbstlutil list -U -backupid XXXX will show oyu the details.

This will run through all your SLP jobs and activate them, you can see the oldest ones since they go first.

for i in `/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbstlutil stlilist -image_incomplete -U | grep Image | cut -f 2 -d " "`
do
  echo "Now activating "$i
  /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbstlutil active -backupid $i
done

[cruisen]

perhaps the drives just needs cleaning, what do you got from the robot as erreor message

[Marianne]

Good point. Are drives actually all UP and Available in output of these commands? vmoprcmd vmdareq

[AndresV · Accepted solution]

Hi Guys,

Here is an update, 

First, I canceled the only duplication job, checked on device Monitor tab no drive is being used then I run a couple times this command.

Run <install path>\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\admincmd\nbstlutil dropwg

Until I got a clean output (no errors or warning messages)

Modified the SLP windows or update the SLP windows.

Run once again  <install path>\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\admincmd\nbstlutil dropwg

Finally duplications jobs are running fine.

[Marianne]

"nbstlutil dropwg" ? Never heard of this option! Please explain?

[Will_Restore]

Hmm, not in the admin guide but nbstlutil dropwg

says to drop all workgroup allocations. 

[Marianne]

Then resetall option should've worked as well?