Logan,
If your drives have really been offline since 1/6/00, perhaps this dbbaackup had
simply expired since then (Check your DBBACKUP expiration setup). If an error
occured on the tape, I do not believe it would change it from a dbbackup to
scratch tape as a result. At least, I have not seen this (But I have seen a
decent number of tape I/O errors in the last year - DLT7000's ugh) Again, you
need to search your logs to find out for sure if the problem was a one time
incident or if it might happen again, whatever it was. =] Happy hunting!
adam
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Corporate Information Systems
Brown & Sharpe, RI
Phone: (401) 886-2236
Pager: (800) 913-5395
Email: aslesinger AT us.bnsmc DOT com
LOGAN wrote:
> Now the drives are back on line(Thanks Adam, Mary, and Don). I had 2 tapes for
> db backup. These 2 tapes were switched during the full db backup each time.
> When the 2 drives went off line, one of the 2 tapes was showing
> status=Scratch and Last Use=none(left blank). It had status=Private and Last
> Use=DbBackup before the problem. As Adam mentioned, could this be because the
> tape went bad when it was in the drive? And I lost whatever was in the tape?
> Now,after bringing the drives back on line, It backed up the db on to the
> Scratch tape and changed the status back to 'Private' and Last Use to
> 'DbBackup'. Do you see any potential problem here?
>
> As Nathan pointed out, I also want to update the server to 3.1.2.40. Could any
> one tell me the location where the update images can be ftp'ed from.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Logan.
>
> Adam Slesinger <aslesinger AT US.BNSMC DOT COM> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> To get your drives back online, issue the two following commands at the adsm
> prompt.
>
> UPDATE DRIVE TAPELIBRARY1 TAPEDRIVE1 ONLINE=YES
> UPDATE DRIVE TAPELIBRARY1 TAPEDRIVE2 ONLINE=YES
>
> You probably will want to also check the AIX errpt as well as the ADSM
> activity
> log around the time the drives became offline to find out why. I've had
> drives
> go offline on me before for things such as a tape going bad while in the
> drive.
> Hope this helps!
>
> adam
> __________________
> Adam Slesinger
> Corporate Information Systems
> Brown & Sharpe, RI
> Phone: (401) 886-2236
> Pager: (800) 913-5395
> Email: aslesinger AT us.bnsmc DOT com
>
> LOGAN wrote:
>
> > I had 'q drives' and thats why it couldn't find that command(Steve, thank
> > you). It shows now that the drive is not available. There is no tape
> mounted
> > in there. I also tried cleaning them. It had been working fine for last 7
> > months. Any idea why this could happen or how to put them back on line?
> >
> > TIA.
> >
> > adsm>
> > q drive
> > ANR2017I Administrator SERVER_CONSOLE issued command: QUERY DRIVE
> >
> > Library Name Drive Name Device Type Device ON LINE
> > ------------ ---------- ----------- ------- -------
> > TAPELIBRARY1 TAPEDRIVE1 8MM /dev/mt0 Unavailable Since
> > 01/06/00 18:04:43
> > TAPELIBRARY1 TAPEDRIVE2 8MM /dev/mt1 Unavailable Since
> > 01/06/00 18:04:18
> >
> > S W Branch <SWBRANC AT PPCO DOT COM> wrote:
> > Try "q drive"
> >
> > Steve Branch
> > Phillips Petroleum
> > e-mail: swbranc AT ppco DOT com
> >
> > LOGAN <vlogan AT USA DOT net> on 01/12/2000 10:23:41 AM
> >
> > Any replies will be addressed to: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
> > <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> >
> > To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> >
> > cc:
> > (bcc: S W Branch/Sweeny/Phillips Petroleum/us)
> >
> > Subject: Re: [Re: Help: DB backup fails.]
> >
> > Dwight,
> > q drives says unknown command. But the other 2 are as follows:
> > adsm>
> > q mount
> > ANR2017I Administrator SERVER_CONSOLE issued command: QUERY MOUNT
> > ANR2034E QUERY MOUNT: No match found using this criteria.
> > adsm>
> > q pro
> > ANR2017I Administrator SERVER_CONSOLE issued command: QUERY PROCESS
> > ANR0944E QUERY PROCESS: No active processes found.
> >
> > Thank you for your follow up in advance.
> >
> > Logan.
> >
> > "Cook, Dwight E" <cookde AT BP DOT COM> wrote:
> > Drives are all tied up by other processes or are not working...
> > try a "q drives" and a "q mount" and a "q pro" to see where you stand...
> > later,
> > Dwight
> >
> > > ----------
> > > From: LOGAN[SMTP:vlogan AT USA DOT NET]
> > > Reply To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 5:49 PM
> > > To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > > Subject: Help: DB backup fails.
> > >
> > > Hi ADSMers.
> > >
> > > To backup the db, I issued the following commands on the server console:
> > > adsm>
> > > delete volh todate=today type=dbbackup
> > >
> > > then
> > >
> > > adsm>
> > > backup db dev=7331_lib1 type=full vol=backup
> > > ANR2017I Administrator SERVER_CONSOLE issued command: BACKUP DB
> > > dev=7331_lib1
> > > type=full vol=backup
> > > ANR0984I Process 35 for DATABASE BACKUP started in the BACKGROUND at
> > > 14:16:07.
> > > ANR2280I Full database backup started as process 35.
> > > adsm>
> > > ANR4571E Database backup/restore terminated - insufficient number of
> mount
> > > points available for removable media.
> > > ANR0985I Process 35 for DATABASE BACKUP running in the BACKGROUND
> > > completed
> > > with completion state FAILURE at 14:16:08.
> > >
> > > ADSM Server for AIX-RS/6000 - Version 3, Release 1, Level 2.30
> > >
> > > adsm>
> > >
> > >
> > > Could anyone tell me what is the problem.
> > >
> > > Thank you.
> > >
> > > Logan.
> > >
> > >
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