Backups failing - "Ready; No idle devices are available"
All of a sudden, Backup Exec 2012 is not running most of my jobs. The job status stays at"Ready; No idle devices are available" It ran 2 of the backups but I'm not sure why it didn't run the others. I have 2 drives, but it would only use one at a time. Both initially have a status of 'Online.' When I was able to get one of my backup jobs running, it would load into one drive, that status would change to 'Active.' Then, if I try to run another job, the other drive will change to 'Active' for a moment, then go back to 'Online' and the job status goes to"Ready; No idle devices are available" These are the things I've tried: Shutting down and restarting the server and the backup device Restarting the Backup Exec services Pausing and unpausing the backup drives What else can I try?
Backup Exec is ejecting a tape when it shouldn't...
Hi guys, Backup Exec 2012 (patched to date). Windows 2003 SBS SP2 Single HP Ultrium 3 internal SAS tape drive. LastFriday I inserted a brand new tape intothe backuprotation. For this I simply put the new tape in the drive and ran a label job on it. This puts the tape, as you probably already know, into the scratch media pool. Saturday morning I discovered I had received repeated emails, from BENT, asking me to remove the media. I connected to the server and noticed that the Friday night backup job was still running, with 0KB written to the tape, and a remove media alert was visible in BENT. When I checked the properties of the brand new tape in the drive I noticed it had been allocated to one of my backup media pools that are set to overwrite protect the backup data for a set period of time. However, it appears BENT had done this to the tape before it had run the backup; thereby preventing itself from overwriting the blank tape (this mishandling of the media pool allocation is a separate issue I am still dealing with on a Symantec support case)!? So, to get the backup job running again I thought, all I have to do is cancel the backup job, reallocate the tape back to the scratch pool and rerun the job. So, I ignored the media remove request and cancelled the job. Only to find that BENT had ejected the tape anyway!? Surely, this is a fault in the logic of BENT. The tape should not be ejected until after the operator acknowledges the media removal alert. The backup job hasn't been set up to eject the tape on completion and I didn't acknowledge the media removal request, so BENT has abug (faulty logic)whereby the tape is still ejected, in this scenario. In this instance, I had to ask my client to go into their office, on a weekend, so they can push the tape back into the drive. Whereby I moved the tape back into the scratch pool and kicked the job off again, which completed without further errors. What should happen, when a tape that is overwrite protected and a backup job is trying to overwrite the tape is as follows: 1. A media removal alert is generated. 2. The operator is given the opportunity to check the backup job's settings and the state of the media in the drive and take actions to remediate the problem. In my case, this was to cancel the backup job, reallocate the blank tape to the scratch pool and then kick the backup job off again. However, I was precluded from doing this because BENT had already shosen to eject the tape. 3. Ifmy chosen course of actionwas to swap the media then, and only then,Backup Exec shouldeject the tape if I acknowledge the media removal alert. As far as I can see this is a fundamental flaw in the logic of the product that precludes it from being suitable for use at sites that have a single tape backup unit where backups need to be managed unattended. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Cheers, David
How to set overwrite backup to preventing full disk space?
Hi! I'm using a Backup Exec 2012 Version 14.0 Rev. 1798 (64-bit), and have configured with the following (capture) schedule : When I check the storage, capacity of disk is low becausethe backup process does not overwritten previouslydata. How I can to set overwrite backup to preventing full disk space? Can I deleting the old data manually? Best Regards, Barkah