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I have used both Sun and SpectraLogic. Both work quite well. My latest Spectra library I have had to reboot every couple of Months but other than that it is working very well. My Sun Library was setup ...

There is a known solaris 10 memory leak with Netbackup.
Update kernel patch to 118833-24 for memory management, socket management fixes
See http://patches.sun.com/clusters/10_Recommended.README

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Each time our vendor comes in and updates the firmware on our 25 tape drives
most of them have to be deleted and re-added to my windows x64 media servers.
The Linux ones don't seem to have this issu ...

Has anyone heard about a table of wwn/addresses located inside of a 9940B or
similiar fiber tape drives? I heard a rumor but cannot find any documentation
that said,.

The tape drive has a table o ...

I am fairly sure this cannot be done. the command will execute but the format of the database files is different so the windows server will not be able to figure out what is actually there. Was poss ...

Has anyone heard about a table of wwn/addresses located inside of a 9940B or similiar fiber tape drives? I heard a rumor but cannot find any documentation that said,.

The tape drive has a table of ...

I have the best success doing it on the master sever. In the gui click on master server then property. under client properties add the client in question then Disable VSP or VSS which ever is giving ...

Is it possible for me to join the mailing list?

Ah, I answered my own question by reading you sig. I just joined.
Thank you

have you considered going with LTO3? they cost isn't that much different but you get quite a bit more speed and copacity. Still backward compatable.

LTO tapes can be read by LTO2 tape drives since they are backwards compatable. You will want to move the tab so that the tapes are write protected otherwise they can end up freezing the drive. Some ...

Also I quite often set my logging to 3. It is't quite as verbose but there is usrally enough info to debug a problem.

What kind of errors are you seeing in bptm, bpbkar, bpcd?

I am getting this error when trying to run a backup
The Media Group you are submitting to is busy. A Run Now job
cannot be submitted to a busy Meidia Group.

No other backups are running that I k ...

Can you see anything in the bptm or bpbkar log. quite often just running the logs set to 3 you can see what is going on.

How much tuning do you do? I am running an old E3500 as a master/media server with a second media server and am not really running into to many problems. With a modern box I think I could do quite w ...