06-22-2012 04:58 AM
NBU 6.5.6
Windows 2003 Std R2
Hi all,
I have a Master/Media server with two drives.
I've noticed that only one drive is being used to write backups.
Both drives are configured as DLT2 and are associated with the same storage unit.
The tape library (ADIC 100) and operating system can see both drives. They have the same driver loaded in the o/s.
If I disable the one good working drive in the o/s and run the Configure Storage Devices wizard in NBU, it successfully detects the other drive, but still no backups are able to use it. The backup job reports "no drives available"
I can however successfully run robtest and load and unload tapes from this drive.
Any ideas/suggestions?
Thanks,
Matt
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06-22-2012 08:11 AM
MdsAllocation: allocationKey=285955 ...
try this command
nbrbutil -releaseMDS 285955
to free up the drive
06-22-2012 05:41 AM
Please show us output of following commands:
<install-path>\veritas\netbackup\bin\admincmd\bpstulist -U
<install-path>\veritas\netbackup\bin\admincmd\nbrbutil -dump
<install-path>\veritas\volmgr\bin\tpconfig -l
<install-path>\veritas\volmgr\bin\vmoprcmd -d
06-22-2012 07:51 AM
Hi Marianne,
Output attached.
Regards,
Matt
06-22-2012 08:11 AM
MdsAllocation: allocationKey=285955 ...
try this command
nbrbutil -releaseMDS 285955
to free up the drive
06-22-2012 08:23 AM
Marianne - you've done it again! It's working. You're a star!!
:)
06-22-2012 08:33 AM