I tried all of the suggestions and still had the problem. I contacted Symantec and we got it fixed. Here is a summary:
ISSUE REPORTED: Not all 10 drives are in use at any given time backups will use only 8 drives randomly. But it will always be any 2 drives out of the 10 that won't be used. INITIAL INVESTIGATION: -Max jobs per client is set to 99 under Host Properties >> Master Server >> Global Attributes -Max concurrent drives is set to 10 under Storage Units >> Problem Storage Unit. TROUBLESHOOTING: -Ran robtest (s d) to check if the two drives already had a tape stuck in them. No. -Guessing that it is an nbrb allocation issue. -We ran <Install Drive>:\Veritas\netbackup\bin\admincmd\nbrbutil -dump to check the point in time MDS Allocations within EMM. -Saw two orphaned allocations without any attributes matching current allocations. MdsAllocation allocationKey=7191130 jobType=16 mediaKey=4002098 mediaId=002033 driveKey=0 driveName= drivePath= stuName= masterServerName=mfbback01 mediaServerName=mfbback01 ndmpTapeServerName= diskVolumeKey=0 mountKey=0 linkKey=0 fatPipeKey=0 scsiResType=0 serverStateFlags=0 MdsAllocation allocationKey=7191132 jobType=16 mediaKey=4000992 mediaId=002016 driveKey=0 driveName= drivePath= stuName= masterServerName=mfbback01 mediaServerName=mfbback01 ndmpTapeServerName= diskVolumeKey=0 mountKey=0 linkKey=0 fatPipeKey=0 scsiResType=0 serverStateFlags=0 -Looks like nbrb is holding up further resource allocation due to these orphaned alloc holds. -Released the holds by running nbrbutil -releasemds <allocation key as underline above> -Verified last written date on one of the media by running nbemmcmd -listmedia -mediaid 002033. It was dating back to 30th January 2009. -This is roughly the time frame when the issue started. -After releasing the holds we are now able to fire up jobs on them drives. Thanks to everyone for your suggestions. I think I am seeing improvement from setting the max jobs higher. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by mwea...@fbinsmi.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
