Troubleshooting

 

Troubleshooting Backup and Restore Sessions

Action

Modify the media pool policy to Appendable to enable the appending of

 

backups to the media until the media are full.

 

The media in the device are not formatted and the media pool to

 

be used has a Strict policy

 

If your pool uses a Strict media allocation policy, media that are not

 

formatted will not be used for backup. If no formatted media are

 

available, Data Protector issues a mount request.

Action

If you would like Data Protector to automatically format unformatted

 

media, set the media pool policy to Loose and change global variable

 

InitOnLoosePolicy to 1.

 

The media in the device are not formatted and the media pool to

 

be used has a Loose policy

 

If your pool uses a Loose media allocation policy, media are not

 

automatically formatted.

Action

If you would like Data Protector to automatically format unformatted

 

media, you need to change global variable InitOnLoosePolicy to 1.

 

The media in the device are formatted but are different from

 

those in the preallocation list

 

The media in the device are formatted but are different from those in the

 

preallocation list of the backup specification, and the pool specified has a

 

Strict policy

 

If you use a preallocation list of media in combination with the Strict

 

media policy, the exact media specified in the preallocation list need to

 

be available in the device when a backup is started. If the exact media

 

are not available, a mount request is issued.

Action

To use media available in the device in combination with the

 

preallocation list, modify the media pool allocation policy to Loose.

 

Unexpected Mount Request for a Library Device

 

There are several situations, described below, that may cause Data

 

Protector to issue a mount request for a library device while media are

 

available in the library.

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