We are running Netbackup version 7.6.2.
We have four drives and all of them are active. But when I just looked at the activity monitor, I found that only 2 of the 4 drives are actually used at any point in time. There are jobs waiting in the queue with a message ‘No Drives available’ even though they are two drives un-used.
I can see the Max Concurrent Drives is configured to be 4 in both Master and media servers.
./vmoprcmd -d ds
DRIVE STATUS
Drv Type Control User Label RecMID ExtMID Ready Wr.Enbl. ReqId
0 hcart TLD - No - 0
1 hcart TLD - No - 0
2 hcart TLD Yes H01522 H01522 Yes Yes 0
3 hcart TLD Yes G00006 G00006 Yes Yes 0
Even though the drives are shown as not ready, they are being used but the problem is only two of them are used concurrently.
Due to this the backups are lagging behind...
I am relatively new to Netbackups. Any pointers on what could be the issue and how can I check it up further?