Backup Jobs go to "Hold"

[curtjohnson]

When I schedule a job in BE 8.0 the job goes to "hold" right away. I've checked the history (renamed the dir.), reloaded the software, deleted the Que. I can rewind the tape and eject the tape. I ran tests from the scheduler and it passes. Still goes to hold. I'm thinking of deleting the software and reinstalling. Does anybody have any other ideas? I am using Netware 4.11 SP 7.

 

[2ffat]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;What happens when you do a &lt;Ctrl&gt;T to change the job from <i>Hold</i> to <i>Ready</i>?<br> <p>James P. Cottingham<br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href=

http://www.ivcusa.com>International

Veneer Co., Inc.</a><br>All opinions are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.

 

[curtjohnson]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The job will refuse to go to ready or active if you try to change it. Today however, I renamed the Bkupexec dir in sys ( I didn't care to keep any data since it was so long between a complete backup) and loaded 8.5 (I had 8.0) and the patch to go with it. It seems to be working fine now. I may never know why it all of the sudden stopped working, but I do remember working on another problem on the server which might have caused&nbsp;&nbsp;it.<br>

 

[Guest_imported]

I am having a similiar problem.&nbsp;&nbsp;I just got back from vacation, backups were working fine before I left, now they aren't.&nbsp;&nbsp;After the job is submitted, it remains ready until it is time to start.&nbsp;&nbsp;Instead of going to active it goes to hold.&nbsp;&nbsp;When I &lt;Ctrl&gt; T to take the job off hold, it gives me the following message:<br><br>Job &lt;jobname&gt; was on hold because its target partition is on hold.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is now on user hold as well.&nbsp;&nbsp;When the target partition is made ready, this job will remain on hold until it is toggled back to ready.&nbsp;&nbsp;Press any key to continue....<br><br>I have booted the backup server.&nbsp;&nbsp;Any ideas, anyone?&nbsp;&nbsp;We are running Netware 4.11, BE v8.5 with Open File option and Advanced Autoloader option.

 

[2ffat]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The target partition should be the tape drive. It sounds like something has happened to the tape drive to cause it to be &quot;lost&quot; to BE. Did someone change a config file while you were gone? You may have to uninstall and reinstall BE to have it &quot;re-find&quot; the tape partition.<br><br> <p>James P. Cottingham<br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href=

http://www.ivcusa.com>International

Veneer Co., Inc.</a><br>All opinions are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.

 

[Guest_imported]

It now works!&nbsp;&nbsp;Your reply got me thinking.....it was like BE couldn't find the tape drive....so I went into Job Manager -&gt; Change Options -&gt; Partition Mangement and sure enough, the partition status was &quot;hold&quot;....I took it off hold (Ctrl-T) and it changed the status to ready.....and it works!!!!!!&nbsp;&nbsp;As simple as that.&nbsp;&nbsp;Now how in the world the partition got on hold in the first place is beyond me, but at least it works.&nbsp;&nbsp;Yesterday when I realized it had&nbsp;&nbsp;been 2 weeks since we had a good backup I was really worried, and coming back from vacation to this mess has not been fun......Thanks for your help.