10-27-2015 08:12 AM
Hi,
I'm using netbackup 7.5 on Solaris and noticed, that the media still remains in the Scratch Pool after used by a policy and only moves to the assigned volume pool later. When and how does this happen?
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10-27-2015 08:33 AM
10-27-2015 08:29 AM
When a policy runs, if the volume pool associated to that policy has no tapes it will move a tape from Scratch to that Pool for use.
Only when all of the images on that tape will the tape return to it's previous pool, so Scratch.
If you are seeing the Tape still in the Scratch Pool when a backup is writing to it, I would suggest you to log out of the console and log back in as it's not refreshing correctly, or use vmquery command from the command line (or available_media).
If the tape has not moved to the Volume Pool specificed in the policy then the job would fail with a status 96 - unable to allocate new media for backup, storage unit has none available
10-27-2015 08:33 AM