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[spudnuts]

To most of you, this is probably an easy fix but since I'm doing all my backup solution from the seat of my pants i'm lost on it.

I'm running Networker 7.2, Quantum ATL P1000 Autochanger, 2 DLT7000 Tape drives, 29 tapes and 1 cleaning tape installed. All this is backing up 7 servers and 1 exchange server.

At first, everything seemed to be working great but lately i've noticed that no backups are being performed because of "Media Critical Event: Waiting for 1 writable volumes to backup pool "Default" tape(s) [followed by my backup server name]

I think what's happening is that my backup tapes are full and not recycling and networker cannot find a writable tape to backup on to.

I looked at retension and it was set to "year", and browse was set to "month".

Right now, nothing is being backed up. How do I get going again and recycle, I want to overwrite everything that's a month old. I'm currently doing full's on Friday night and incrementals every night.

Thanks in advance.

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[Rexxy]

firstly change the Browse & retentions for the clients to match the SLA cycles for the Backups..i.e. if your data is to be sent offsite and or kept in backup form for 10weeks, then change the browse and Ret to both be 10weeks....

ensure the Auto Media management is turned on in the jukebox, to allow the Jukebox the ability to Label media that is "NOT" known, i.e. fresh media.... (be careful with this though.....)

ensure the Pool has been set to allow to recycle to ther pools and also Recycle from other pools, if your using same media type, and various different pools...


then maybe just run an mminfo against the media index, sort it by time, output it to a log file, and then use this to work out what is expired and can be relabelled and then recycled...

maybe: mminfo -av -ot -q pool=Default -r volume,client,savetime,volretent,ssretent|uniq

maybe instead of relabelling them, just set them manually to recycle....

if the client retentions are set etc, then the next backups should find their backup pattern, but the media doesnt expire until the very last saveset date expires..

 

[spudnuts]

I'm using the default pool and when I try to edit and set it to allow recycle to other pools and recycle to other pools I get an error "Pool "Default" may not be modified". Do I need to create a new pool?

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[spudnuts]

Another issue, when I do a mminfo, it shows that the expiration is undef but retention has a date of 2007? If I relabel doesn't that wipe out everything?

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[spudnuts]

Ok, created a new pool but had to relabel to get all the volumes into the new pool. Everytime I try to recycle under the old pool (Default) I would get errors that the volumes were full and it would keep ejecting tapes and loading another looking for an empty volume.

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[speculos]

Hello spudnuts,

you can force savesets recycling with this command:

nsrim -X

you should see "browsable -> recycle" in the output
(we schedule this command once a day, and all works fine)