need help. i am going to take backup of netbackup catalog.but after few minutes backup fail with error code 164 unable to mount media because it is in a DOWN drive or misplaced.all drives are working fine and regular backup sucessfuly completed just issue on netbackup catalog backup. catalog media present in libary.need ur help.
Just for fun, run a robot inventory in NetBackup to make sure Netbackup sees the catalog tape is inside the tape library and places it inside a catalog volume pool?
And try again.
If not, try writing the the netbackup catalog to a different tape and see what happens.
which is the netbackup version you are using ,,, it's clearly saying that Down drive , i think the drive path is down for the storage unit (server) which you are trying to backup ......
Thanks all. friend i am using netbackup version 5.1 MP7.allready run inventory.all drive path visible to OS level. and also checking link http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/274740.htm after that issue still going on. please help.
as you are on 5.1 you just be doing a cold catalog backup.
on the console on the left choose Catalog
right click and choose configure
on the tab with the tapes
look at what tapes you have list there ( should be 2)
now go verify that BOTH of those tapes are IN the library.
If not - change the tapes in the catalog config to use two CATALOG tapes that ARE in the library.