We had some recent hardware issues with tape robot and had to re-do robotics config on NBU. Meanwhile we had storage unit marked as inactive for the SLPs using that robot for a duplication stage.
Now that the storage unit has been marked as active we have about 300 queued duplication jobs and it looks like after each image copy in the active duplication job finishes the job gets superseded by another backup job which unmounts the tape and remounts it then does 1 image. This is making duplication performance really bad and the tape mounts for the active media are going through the roof. They go from 0 to about 400 before media fills up. We didn't have this issue before the robotics reconfig I don't think. Scratching my head on this one. It may go back to a change in behavior after an upgrade from 7.1.0.3 to 7.5.0.4 also Info on the storage unit config. Dell ML6010 with 2 LTO4 drives presented to 2 media servers There is a 2 host SUG with the 2 drives. The target media group has max non-full media set to 2 At any time, I am seeing 4 active duplication jobs oscillating with no drive available with normally only 1 active at any given time due to unmount/remount overhead. Obviously only 2 can actually be writing to media at any given time. I tried taking one of the hosts out of the SUG, but that didn't help, still have 4 active jobs juking it out for the 2 drives and thrashing the robot and media mounts. Anyone have a suggestion? This is killing the robot and lifecycle policy windows. _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu