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NBU Trick #3 - Got an Itch? |
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Written by Paul Winkeler
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Friday, 02 May 2003 |
Invariably NetBackup administrators freshly gloating over a few weeks' worth of successful NetBackup runs find themselves wondering why they are suddenly seeing jobs failing with error code 96 even though there are plenty of empty volumes available. Closer investigation shows that the empty volumes are not in the volume pool required by the failed jobs.
NetBackup will pull volumes from the scratch pool when the pool it is looking for is empty, but it will not pull tapes from other pools. The nail in the coffin, however, is that NetBackup will also not return empty volumes back to the scratch pool. That step is up to the administrator. Here is how to automate what some feel should be an integral part of NetBackup to begin with. |
Last Updated ( Monday, 27 August 2007 )
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