Check the status of the tape. It may be suspended from the duplication process. If it is, then NetBackup will not write to it. Tape suspension is selectable in the vaulting profile. It is turned on by default. You will find it on the "Eject" tab of the profile GUI.. Select to NOT suspend the tape by removing the checkmark. That will take care of any future problems.
Now to fix your current problem of the tapes that have been suspended change the state of suspension on the tapes via the command:
bpmedia -unsuspend -m
If you do not remove the suspension, then the the tape will not be available for writing purposes until it expires.
Of coarse if the tape is full then it also will not write to it until the data becomes expired sometime after infinity :)Message was edited by:
Bob Stump