Team,
I have saved the current available_media script as available_media.randy and
did the modification as follows in this email. This fix is supposed to get the
available media script to much faster. From 4 hours to few minutes.
Thanks
Srini
On Wednesday 23 February 2000 at 08:08, Rob Worman wrote:
> Hi Brian-
>
> Don't necessarily trust the available media script when it tells that
> a tape's status is DBBACKUP. It's certainly possible to have "extra"
> tapes which are marked for DB backups, but more likely it's a bug in
> the available_media script. IIRC the bpmedialist call (which is
> inefficiently called hundreds or thousands of times, depending on how
> many tapes you have, see fix below) occasionally hits a snag and
> doesn't return info on one of your tapes and in this case the tape
> gets the "DBBACKUP" status assigned.
>
> Here's what I suggest - not only is it a fix, but it will
> tremendously speed up your available_media script if you have a lot
> of tapes. (e.g. surveying 600 tapes takes about 45 seconds instead
> of 10 minutes)
>
> Edit the available_media shell script like so: (I'm looking at a box
> running 3.1.1 at the moment, but the 3.2 available_media script is
> identical or close enough)
>
> =========
> 1--go to the line "cat $VMPOOL_OUTPUT |"
> (line 152 for me)
>
> 2--BEFORE this line, add the following command:
> /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpmedialist -mlist -l >
> /tmp/mvedialist.out
>
> (this command should be all one line, and that's a
> lowercase "L" flag, not the digit "1")
>
> 3--go to the line where bpmedialist is being piped to a while loop
> (line 177 for me)
>
> 4--comment out the bpmedialist line, and replace it with the following:
>
> grep $vmediaid /tmp/vmedialist.out 2>/dev/null |
>
> (don't forget that pipe at the end....)
> ===========
>
> sorry, the above fix won't necessarily work on an NT Master server :))
>
> rob
>
> >All,
> >
> >Being new to this list my question maybe a repeat, if so please point me
> >to the archives and I will be a happy person but.....
> >
> >
> >When I run the available_media script on a 3.2 NBU box I get the
> >DBBACKUP listing on some tapes. Yes I know how to get rid of it and
> >change it back to the correct pool. What I am looking for is a way to
> >prevent this from happening. It is happening with more freq. and would
> >like to solve it not band-aid it.
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >brian
> >
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