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Networker doesn't change tapes

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sysadmin02

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May 15, 2002
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When a tape gets full during a backup, networker doesn't auto rotate in a new tape. It just sits there waiting. I can't unmount and then mount in a new tape manually because it says it busy. My whole tray of DLTs belong to the same group and pool. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks for your help.
 
We're having the same problem since we upgraded to Networker 7.1.2, and installed a Storagetek L20 Library.

The problem occurs once in a while, at totally random times.

We've replaced the board on de L20, replaced the Drive, and reinstalled the jukebox in Networker (jbconfig). Al this didn't solve the issue.

Sorry to say I don't have a solution, but I am also in desperate need of some help!
 
sysadmin02,
i don't have a cluue yet. If it is a general problem then i think it is due to misconfiguration. Do you have a media which is empty or recyclable at all? On the other hand, NW should at least unload the media ...
Have you increased the Idle Device Timeout value for the jukebox?

BTW - if you use Auto Media Management for the jukebox, do NOT use it for the drives as well. I never tested what will happen in this case.


If the problem happens sporadically, i guess it is a software bug (see below).



HBOS,
your problem seems to be a software relalated bug. Why don't you update to 7.1.3?
 
I had a problem like this in a customer, the jukebox didn't change the tape. The problem (in my case) was that media index and client file index was veeeeeeery large, so the server used too much memory in order to try to search what tape to use.

How large are your indexes?

Cheers.

Chacal, Inc.[wavey]
 
Hi,

there is a nsrjb Patch since 5 days

LGTPA76824

Andreas
 
sysadmin02

NEtworker normally checks if all savesets in the tape are expired before recycling that tape.

NetWorker checks this in the media-database.

I would run #nsrim -X in the NW server, this command cross-checks the media database and prune all information that is no longer pertinent.

Running this command on a weekly basis, along with #nsrck -L6 to also check the indexes is a good maintenance habit with any NetWorker service.

Hope this helps.

Regards

LegatoTech
 
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