Thanks for your suggestions, Ernie.  I think I have resolved most of the
issues.  I can read from the tapes (except for one instance where I have two
backups in a single day; then networker fails!)  I find it difficult to
believe that taking a working networker 6.1.3 server and upgrading to 7.0
would cause hardware problems to manifest themselves.  I did crank up
debugging to 70, but it did not really reveal anything meaningful to me.  As
for the load/unload timers, I have NO problems with the two drives that are
connected to the linux box.  I believe this to be a networker related issue.

I am going to keep my fingers crossed and hold my breath.

Thanks for your great suggestions!

Shelley

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Bokkelkamp Ernst wrote:

> Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 13:00:22 -0700
> From: Bokkelkamp Ernst <ernst.bokkelkamp AT siemens DOT com>
> To: Legato NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU>,
>      Shelley L. Shostak <sls AT QSTECH DOT COM>
> Subject: RE: [Networker] Summary: Netapp NDMP backups with NW7.0
>
> First thing you should do is to get the NDMP specification and try to
> understand it. Even if you do not understand it completely, it will help you
> with the next step.
>
> Next activate debug on the filer with something like "ndmpd debug 70" (don't
> ask me about the 70, I don't know)
>
> Then INCREASE your load sleep timer to something like 150 second or more.
> If you do not do this then you will see some interesting messages on the
> filer ;-) because networker might be trying to acces the tape to early. Btw.
> Networker gets a completion as soon as the hand has mounted the tape, while
> the drive is still busy.
>
> If this does not work, then the most difficult part follows: Analyze your
> SCSI configuration, try dump on the filer.
> Are you sure that the cabling, HBA, tape drive AND terminator match, is your
> cabling within maximum allowed length ?
>
> Bye
> Ernie

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