Robotic status code: 245

Message: Physical drive is not available

Explanation: A robotic mount operation could not be completed because physical drive resources are not available for the request. This error may result from an environment that is based on virtualized resources, such as one involving the Storagenet 6000 Storage Domain Manager (SN6000).

The SN6000 virtualizes tape drives. Some SN6000 configurations may have more logical drives than the number of physical drives (or equivalent resources) available for drive requests. Also, the relationship between the number of logical drives and physical drives may change as hardware failures occur. NetBackup scheduling, drive allocation, and drive assignment algorithms can only determine logical drive availability. NetBackup attempts to fully utilize all configured and available logical drives. If the number of required logical drives exceeds the physical drives available, a NetBackup job may be started with insufficient drive resources. Instead of queueing the job in the scheduler, the job runs and encounters the resource issue when it makes an ACS tape mount request.