Time to Label a Tape

Hi Folks

I have the latest DSS V6 and a Dell 132T Power Vault tape library. I can see all of my tapes however when I try and label a tape the system seems to take a VERY long time and does ot attach the tapes to the backup pool

How long should this operation take? Its been over an hour and I am still seeing the message
"This function is not available, because a backup function is currently in use"

When you select Erase when creating a pool how long should that tape.

Many thanks
Dave

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Originally Posted by marcwolf

Hi Folks

I have the latest DSS V6 and a Dell 132T Power Vault tape library. I can see all of my tapes however when I try and label a tape the system seems to take a VERY long time and does ot attach the tapes to the backup pool

How long should this operation take? Its been over an hour and I am still seeing the message
"This function is not available, because a backup function is currently in use"

When you select Erase when creating a pool how long should that tape.

Many thanks
Dave

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- Are you running the latest build of DSSv6?
- Did you update your RAID Controller BIOS and mother board BIOS?
- Try to erase and retention the tapes, that should help

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Alaa Souqi

HI.
Yes - very latest V6
No - bios for the card supporting the Tape is seperate from the RAID, but still seen by Open-E

I've restarted the tape system but I am still geting the blue warnings re

Function not available, backup function is in use


Dave

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Originally Posted by marcwolf

HI.
Yes - very latest V6
No - bios for the card supporting the Tape is seperate from the RAID, but still seen by Open-E

I've restarted the tape system but I am still geting the blue warnings re

Function not available, backup function is in use


Dave

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Do you have any running tasks, snapshots, etc? try to stop them all, and only run the Tape backup.

Did you reboot your server, or just restart the tape system!