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tape drive allocations

bcsupport
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‎11-14-2023 04:42 AM

One of our tape drives experienced an issue with a tape getting flagged.  This caused the drive to go down, but now only 1 of our 3 tape drives are running.  I believe there may be allocations on the tape drives.  Can I run nbrbutil -resetall command to reset all of the drives without affecting any current backups going to disk? 

I really need to get these reset and not affect any current backup running.

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Nicolai
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‎11-14-2023 06:52 AM

hi @bcsupport 

You need to stop all NBU activities before running  nbrbutil -resetall, even disk based backups have allocations.

But you don't have to run nbrbutil -reset all, you can release a single allocation:

How to release a device allocation in NetBackup using nbrbutil without using the resetAll parameter

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100023404