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Re: [Networker] Why does NetWorker use a read-only drive for writing?

2007-04-10 19:04:11
Subject: Re: [Networker] Why does NetWorker use a read-only drive for writing?
From: Peter Viertel <Peter.Viertel AT MACQUARIE DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:02:22 +1000
I get similar problems, I never saw this sort of thing until we upgraded
to 7.2.2.   

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of George Sinclair
Sent: Wednesday, 11 April 2007 3:30 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Why does NetWorker use a read-only drive for
writing?

I have a tape device wherein I set "Read only" to Yes. The device is
Enabled. Why does NetWorker still try to use the device for backups?

I came in this morning, and NetWorker was waiting for a writeable tape
for a given backup pool/group.  The tape in question was loaded in this
device, and the tape is still appendable, but it obviously had set the
'Write enabled' attribute for the volume to 'Yes'. That might make sense
given that the device is read only, so I unmounted the tape and
re-mounted it in one of the other drives and then the backups ran to
that tape and completed just fine.

My question is why would NetWorker have  ever loaded this volume in a
device that was set to Read only? I thought any such device would only
be used for recovers or maybe cloning when reading from the source
volume. There is no cloning, however, associated with the affected tape
pool/group.

We're running 7.2.2 on a RedHat storage node. Primary server is 7.2.2 on
Solaris. The device is in a library attached to the snode.

George

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