Backup Job Stuck Waiting for Media 1

[Bakeyman]

One of my weekly full jobs running on a standalone tape drive filled up its tape on Saturday, so I came in this morning to find it waiting on me to put in a fresh tape. I did so this morning and the job hasn't resumed, and it's still waiting on a new tape.

Is there something else I should have done?

Running NetBackup 6.5 on Windows Server 2003.

 

[Frbutler]

see if running a inventory report and selecting "Update volume configuration" will free it up

 

[hpuxrules]

Go to the Device Monitor in the admin console.

You should see the pending tape mount request.

Right click on the pending request and click on the 'resubmit'

 

[Bakeyman]

Turns out hpuxrules pointed me in the right direction. The tape was still pending because someone (not me, I assure you) had set the tape I inserted as write-protected.

 

[hpuxrules]

Glad I could help, and thank you for the star!

I'm not sure if windows master servers support the 'vmoprcmd' command (dos prompt), but that would have basically showed you the same thing.