I have setup DP (as I did countless of times) with multiple Media Pools for day, week, month and year tapes.
In this use case I always create a Free Pool and assign them to al media pools with the use&move option enabled.
I also always set InitOnLoosePolicy=1 in the global file
I alread formatted several tapes which already are moved to the Free pool
Now I entered 60 new tapes in the library, which obviously show up as Unkown in DP.
Now a job to tape starts and it has an empty media pool, so it should pick a tape from the Free pool ..... which it doesn't.
Than it start to pick a new tape which it should initialize to its media pool ... which gives an error.
[Normal] From: BMA@sv-backup02.*******************.** "TAPE01-DRV1" Time: 18-11-2014 10:32:24
=> UMA@sv-backup02.*******************.**@Changer1:0:0:1
Loading medium from slot 81 to device Tape2:0:0:0C
[Warning] From: CSM@sv-dpcm01.*******************.** "DISK2TAPE-Dag" Time: 18-11-2014 10:33:16
Medium "-UNKNOWN" in device "TAPE01-DRV2"
is Data Protector foreign medium.
The medium will not be used for backup.
[Warning] From: CSM@sv-dpcm01.*******************.** "DISK2TAPE-Dag" Time: 18-11-2014 10:33:28
Medium "-UNKNOWN" in device "TAPE01-DRV1"
is Data Protector foreign medium.
The medium will not be used for backup.
[Normal] From: BMA@sv-backup02.*******************.** "TAPE01-DRV2" Time: 18-11-2014 10:33:37
Ejecting medium '73'.
[Normal] From: BMA@sv-backup02.*******************.** "TAPE01-DRV2" Time: 18-11-2014 10:33:37
=> UMA@sv-backup02.*******************.**@Changer1:0:0:1
Unloading medium to slot 73 from device Tape3:0:1:0C
[Normal] From: BMA@sv-backup02.*******************.** "TAPE01-DRV1" Time: 18-11-2014 10:33:50
Ejecting medium '81'.
[Normal] From: BMA@sv-backup02.*******************.** "TAPE01-DRV1" Time: 18-11-2014 10:33:50
=> UMA@sv-backup02.*******************.**@Changer1:0:0:1
Unloading medium to slot 81 from device Tape2:0:0:0C
[Normal] From: BMA@sv-backup02.*******************.** "TAPE01-DRV2" Time: 18-11-2014 10:34:03
=> UMA@sv-backup02.*******************.**@Changer1:0:0:1
Loading medium from slot 73 to device Tape3:0:1:0C
[Normal] From: BMA@sv-backup02.*******************.** "TAPE01-DRV1" Time: 18-11-2014 10:35:46
=> UMA@sv-backup02.*******************.**@Changer1:0:0:1
Loading medium from slot 81 to device Tape2:0:0:0C
[Warning] From: CSM@sv-dpcm01.*******************.** "DISK2TAPE-Dag" Time: 18-11-2014 10:36:42
Medium "-UNKNOWN" in device "TAPE01-DRV2"
is Data Protector foreign medium.
The medium will not be used for backup.
[Warning] From: CSM@sv-dpcm01.*******************.** "DISK2TAPE-Dag" Time: 18-11-2014 10:36:51
Medium "-UNKNOWN" in device "TAPE01-DRV1"
is Data Protector foreign medium.
The medium will not be used for backup.
[Normal] From: BMA@sv-backup02.*******************.** "TAPE01-DRV2" Time: 18-11-2014 10:37:03
Ejecting medium '73'.
[Normal] From: BMA@sv-backup02.*******************.** "TAPE01-DRV2" Time: 18-11-2014 10:37:03
=> UMA@sv-backup02.*******************.**@Changer1:0:0:1
Unloading medium to slot 73 from device Tape3:0:1:0C
[Normal] From: BMA@sv-backup02.*******************.** "TAPE01-DRV1" Time: 18-11-2014 10:37:12
Ejecting medium '81'.
Than it tries to pick that same tape over and over again, until I abort the job.
Manually formatting tapes and assigning them to media pools and than start the job to tape works fine.
So, in short 2 major bugs here:
1. Free Pool doesn't work
2. auto initialization of tapes doesn't work
This is supposed to be an Enterprise Product, but instead it is riddled with bugs and crapy documentation
Good job HP !!!!