Networker

Re: [Networker] Networker wanting mount of AFTD on wrong storage node?

2008-03-13 11:02:59
Subject: Re: [Networker] Networker wanting mount of AFTD on wrong storage node?
From: Howard Martin <howard.martin AT EDS DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:58:04 -0400
Was the data staged to sn01, if so the recovery will start on sn01 and 
want to continue there. As far as I know networker requires all the 
savesets needed for a recover to be on the same storage node.

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:06:59 +0100, Oscar Olsson <spam1 AT QBRANCH DOT SE> 
wrote:

>We just attemped to restore an exchange database, using NME 5.0.0.315,
>where part of the data needed has been staged to tape, and some part of
>it is on the AFTD. The AFTD device and volume in question is available on
>storage node sn02. However, networker keeps insisting on wanting that
>volume on storage node sn01, especially since that node doesn't have any
>AFTD devices at all. The question is, why is that?
>
>I have restricted the respective pool to only be allowed to use the AFTD
>devices that have a volume mounted for that pool, just to ensure that it
>never waits for the volume anywhere else. Also, the clients storage node
>affinity list lists storage node sn02 as the top.
>
>This is what it looks like in the logs:
>
>03/13/08 13:34:05 nsrd: Volume Full1mRet3mDB.002.RO mounted on
>sn02.qbranch.se needs to be mounted on sn01
>03/13/08 13:34:05 nsrd: media event cleared: mount of Full1mRet3mDB.002.RO
>cancelled by server
>03/13/08 13:34:07 nsrd: media info event: adv_file disk
>Full1mRet3mDB.002.RO will be needed
>03/13/08 13:34:07 nsrd: Volume Full1mRet3mDB.002.RO mounted on
>sn02.qbranch.se needs to be mounted on sn01
>03/13/08 13:34:07 nsrd: media event cleared: mount of Full1mRet3mDB.002.RO
>cancelled by server
>
>I'm thinking that this might be a bug, possibly in the module for exchange
>or in networker 7.3.3, which the server and storage nodes run.
>
>//Oscar
>
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