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Today's Topics:

  1. Upgrading NB to 3.2 with 3.0 NT clients (Terese Pelletier)
  2. Re: Upgrading NB to 3.2 with 3.0 NT clients (David A. Chapa)
  3. Re: Upgrading NB to 3.2 with 3.0 NT clients (David A. Chapa)
  4. RE: Available Media (Robert Bakh)
  5. RE: Sharity to NFS mount a NT disk (Robert Bakh)
  6. Eject Command (Lawrence, Bob)
  7. RE: Eject Command (Pat Whelan)
  8. Tape Life (Dale Kramer)
  9. Schedules (TAHUNTER AT micronpc DOT com)
  10. RE: Schedules (TAHUNTER AT micronpc DOT com)
  11. RE: Tape Life (Simon Lurye)
  12. Netbackup Catalog backup (Barbara & Stephen)
  13. DLT 4000 to DLT 7000 conversion (Paul Windsor)
  14. RE: Netbackup Catalog backup (Vandevegt, James Matthew (Jim))
  15. Re: DLT 4000 to DLT 7000 conversion (Mark Smiles)
  16. Re: Re: DLT Cleaning (Brian_Drager AT vanguard DOT com)
  17. bpstart_notify.bat (Marvin Blackburn)
  18. Re: Re: DLT Cleaning (Mario Palafox)

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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 10:41:34 -0400
From: Terese Pelletier <terese.pelletier AT kodak DOT com>
Organization: Imaging Science Resource Laboratory
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading NB to 3.2 with 3.0 NT clients

All,

We are looking to upgrade of NetBackup server from version 3.1.1 to
version 3.2.  Our master and slave server are running Solaris 2.5.1 and
Solaris 2.6 respectively.  Currently our NT clients (these are truly
just clients) are at version 3.0.  Has anyone tried to upgrade just
their server software to version 3.2 while leaving their NT clients at
version 3.0?

Any thoughts, suggestions, problems, etc people have would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks,
Terese
-- 
Terese Pelletier               |Internet: terese.pelletier AT kodak DOT com    
Eastman Kodak Company          |Phone: 716-477-1316             
Room 6325, Bldg 69, KRL        |Pager: 716-253-7239             
Rochester, NY 14650-1925       |Fax:   716-477-0127

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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 09:52:32 -0500 (CDT)
From: "David A. Chapa" <david AT datastaff DOT com>
To: Terese Pelletier <terese.pelletier AT kodak DOT com>
Reply-To: "David A. Chapa" <david AT datastaff DOT com>
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading NB to 3.2 with 3.0 NT clients

Terese:

The bottom line is that is NT v3.x isn't supported with 
v3.2 (Ch 3 Supported Platforms - Release Notes), if you 
decide to run with it your mileage may vary.

The result, if it does work for you, will be 
inconsistent backup and restores or the complete 
inability to restore from those images.

I had a client that wanted to try this as well, and I 
believe we ran into problems immediately.

-David Chapa
DataStaff, Inc.

Quoting Terese Pelletier <terese.pelletier AT kodak DOT com>:

> All,
>
> We are looking to upgrade of NetBackup server from 
version 3.1.1 to
> version 3.2.  Our master and slave server are running 
Solaris 2.5.1 and
> Solaris 2.6 respectively.  Currently our NT clients 
(these are truly
> just clients) are at version 3.0.  Has anyone tried 
to upgrade just
> their server software to version 3.2 while leaving 
their NT clients at
> version 3.0?
>
> Any thoughts, suggestions, problems, etc people have 
would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Terese
> --
> Terese Pelletier               |Internet: 
terese.pelletier AT kodak DOT com
> Eastman Kodak Company          |Phone: 716-477-1316
> Room 6325, Bldg 69, KRL        |Pager: 716-253-7239
> Rochester, NY 14650-1925       |Fax:   716-477-0127
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David A. Chapa                847 413 1144 p
Consulting Practice Mgr.      847 413 1168 f
DataStaff, Inc.               http://www.datastaff.com

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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 10:08:36 -0500 (CDT)
From: "David A. Chapa" <david AT datastaff DOT com>
To: "David A. Chapa" <david AT datastaff DOT com>
Reply-To: "David A. Chapa" <david AT datastaff DOT com>
Cc: Terese Pelletier <terese.pelletier AT kodak DOT com>,
veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Upgrading NB to 3.2 with 3.0 NT clients

Wooops....that is the Installation Guide Page 11, 
NetBackup Server 3.2 only supports 3.1 and 3.1.1 
clients.

When I originally read your email I thought you were 
talking about the NT OS (3.5.1)...sorry for any 
confusion.

-David Chapa

Quoting "David A. Chapa" <david AT datastaff DOT com>:

> Terese:
>
> The bottom line is that is NT v3.x isn't supported 
with
> v3.2 (Ch 3 Supported Platforms - Release Notes), if 
you
> decide to run with it your mileage may vary.
>
> The result, if it does work for you, will be
> inconsistent backup and restores or the complete
> inability to restore from those images.
>
> I had a client that wanted to try this as well, and I
> believe we ran into problems immediately.
>
> -David Chapa
> DataStaff, Inc.
>
> Quoting Terese Pelletier <terese.pelletier AT kodak DOT com>:
>
> > All,
> >
> > We are looking to upgrade of NetBackup server from
> version 3.1.1 to
> > version 3.2.  Our master and slave server are 
running
> Solaris 2.5.1 and
> > Solaris 2.6 respectively.  Currently our NT clients
> (these are truly
> > just clients) are at version 3.0.  Has anyone tried
> to upgrade just
> > their server software to version 3.2 while leaving
> their NT clients at
> > version 3.0?
> >
> > Any thoughts, suggestions, problems, etc people have
> would be greatly
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Terese
> > --
> > Terese Pelletier               |Internet:
> terese.pelletier AT kodak DOT com
> > Eastman Kodak Company          |Phone: 716-477-1316
> > Room 6325, Bldg 69, KRL        |Pager: 716-253-7239
> > Rochester, NY 14650-1925       |Fax:   716-477-0127
> > _______________________________________________
> > Veritas-bu maillist  -  Veritas-
> bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> >
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> bu
> >
>
>
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> David A. Chapa                847 413 1144 p
> Consulting Practice Mgr.      847 413 1168 f
> DataStaff, Inc.               http://www.datastaff.com
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David A. Chapa                847 413 1144 p
Consulting Practice Mgr.      847 413 1168 f
DataStaff, Inc.               http://www.datastaff.com

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Message: 4
From: Robert Bakh <bbakh AT veritas DOT com>
To: "O'Shea, Don" <Don.OShea AT emergis DOT com>,
"'veritas-bu AT eng.auburn DOT edu'"
<veritas-bu AT eng.auburn DOT edu>
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Available Media
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 08:12:54 -0700
charset="iso-8859-1"

A tape would be frozen due to wither a media error or a drive error, or it
has an image that is not set to be over written.

Unfreeze the tapes and see what happens.  Also the case may be that the
backup begins and all available tapes are mounted and another job comes
along and needs to mount a tape, so it takes one of the emergency tapes.

Hope that helps,

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: O'Shea, Don [mailto:Don.OShea AT emergis DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 11:48 AM
To: 'veritas-bu AT eng.auburn DOT edu'
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Available Media


Can anybody help with a problem we are having. Our nightly backups are being
written to our emergency tapes even though their are available tapes in the
library. I ran the available_media command and the daily tapes show up as
available. They are in the loaded in the drives and assigned to the proper
pools. When looking through the bprd log files it does not appear that the
tape is even being queried. We use 2 DLT tapes a night and the first tape
selected is the emergency tape and the second then is one of the daily
tapes. Also is there a log file or report I could run that would tell me why
a tape was frozen? Any help I could get would be appreciated.
 

Don O'Shea
Sr. Operations Analyst
BCE Emergis
Financial Services Division
Phone: (905) 707-4000 Ext. 3765
Fax: (905) 707-4329
mailto:don.oshea AT emergis DOT com

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Message: 5
From: Robert Bakh <bbakh AT veritas DOT com>
To: "Stickle, John R" <StickJR AT AUSTRALIA.Stortek DOT com>,
"'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'" <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn 
DOT edu>
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Sharity to NFS mount a NT disk
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 08:12:53 -0700
charset="iso-8859-1"

I'm sure it would work in the most basic of ways.

What you would be giving up is performance due to the overhead of NFS and
you would also lose some of your NT ACLs, I would try it, but would not
recommend it.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Stickle, John R [mailto:StickJR AT AUSTRALIA.Stortek DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 7:25 AM
To: 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Sharity to NFS mount a NT disk


Folks,
        Has anyone used Sharity ( http://www.obdev.at/Products/Sharity.html
) on a Solaris NetBackup Master  3.2 patched to NFS mount a NT disk and back
it up with the Unix backup client on the NetBackup master?   The aim is to
avoid using the NetBackup NT client. 
Thanks,
John Stickle
StorageTek Australia Pty Limited
Mobile  +61 411 186 408
'Phone +61 8 9242 2288
Fax      +61 8 9242 1382



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Message: 6
From: "Lawrence, Bob" <Robert.Lawrence AT primark DOT com>
To: "'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'"
<veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 13:37:41 +0100
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Eject Command



I currently use NBU 3.1.5 on NT4.0 with a STK robot.

Does anyone know what command actually ejects a numbered tape to the Robot
Outport?
Is it something I can put in a script?   and does it update the Volume
Database automatically or would I have to do that separately?


thanks
Bob

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Message: 7
From: Pat Whelan <pwhelan AT veritas DOT com>
To: "'Lawrence, Bob'" <Robert.Lawrence AT primark DOT com>,
"'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'" <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn 
DOT edu>
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Eject Command
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 21:59:37 -0700
charset="iso-8859-1"

I don't know if it exist at NBU 3.1.5, but at 3.2 there is a command
"vmrobcmd" with the following parameters:
Usage:  .\vmrobcmd [-extend|-retract|-inject|-eject]
            -rh <robot_host>
            -rn <robot_num>
            -sn <slot_num>

Hope this helps.

Patrick Whelan 
Consulting 
[NBU (with extensions) and Storage Migrator] 
[VxFS and Volume Manager]
pwhelan AT veritas DOT com

Of course this is just my opinion, I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
Friends help friends move, good friends help move bodies - Unknown.



                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Lawrence, Bob [mailto:Robert.Lawrence AT primark DOT 
com]
                Sent:   Friday, April 28, 2000 5:38 AM
                To:     'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
                Subject:        [Veritas-bu] Eject Command



                I currently use NBU 3.1.5 on NT4.0 with a STK robot.

                Does anyone know what command actually ejects a numbered
tape to the Robot
                Outport?
                Is it something I can put in a script?   and does it update
the Volume
                Database automatically or would I have to do that
separately?


                thanks
                Bob
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Message: 8
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 15:24:56 -0400
From: Dale_Kramer AT steris DOT com (Dale Kramer)
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Tape Life

     I hope someone can help me with this.  We use FujiFilm DLT tape IV for 
     our backups.  What is the useful life for this tape.  In other words 
     how many times can we back up to it dependably before we should 
     exchange it out for a new tape.
     
     thanx,
     dale

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Message: 9
From: TAHUNTER AT micronpc DOT com
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 15:52:20 -0600
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Schedules

I have created various schedules that have a frequency of 4 weeks.  I have
been having problems with them not running.  I do not see any errors
messages indicating what could be the problem.  These are new schedules and
haven't ran but, it seems like the frequency is causing it to not launch.
When I change the frequency to 1 day or 1 week the class will launch like it
should.  I have deleted and recreated these schedules and this still hasn't
helped.  I have had to manually launch these to get them to run.

Does anyone have any ideas as to why this would happen?

Terissa Hunter
NT Administrator
Micronpc.com
898-3359
tahunter AT micronpc DOT com



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Message: 10
From: TAHUNTER AT micronpc DOT com
To: richard.parkinson AT nsmg.veritas DOT com, veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn 
DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Schedules
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 12:20:36 -0600

I do realize this and that is why this doesn't make sense.  These schedules
have NEVER been ran but still do not launch.  After waiting a few days for
these to run on their own and they haven't, I have manually been starting
these to see if this will get them on the 4 weeks schedule.  I did not start
doing a manual backup on these until they failed to launch 3 days in a row.


 

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Parkinson [mailto:richard.parkinson AT nsmg.veritas DOT com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 11:02 AM
To: 'TAHUNTER AT micronpc DOT com'
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Schedules


Terissa,

If you have manually run a backup on the client, when bpsched wakes up
and sees that there is a schedule with a frequency of 4 weeks, it also
sees that you have run a backup within the past 4 weeks and won't run.
The only way the schedule should run is if the type of backup (full,
cumulative, differential) hasn't been run within the frequency specified.

Make sense?  Let me know if not, we can go over it more.

Rich Parkinson

-----Original Message-----
From: TAHUNTER AT micronpc DOT com [mailto:TAHUNTER AT micronpc DOT com]
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 2:52 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Schedules


I have created various schedules that have a frequency of 4 weeks.  I have
been having problems with them not running.  I do not see any errors
messages indicating what could be the problem.  These are new schedules and
haven't ran but, it seems like the frequency is causing it to not launch.
When I change the frequency to 1 day or 1 week the class will launch like it
should.  I have deleted and recreated these schedules and this still hasn't
helped.  I have had to manually launch these to get them to run.

Does anyone have any ideas as to why this would happen?

Terissa Hunter
NT Administrator
Micronpc.com
898-3359
tahunter AT micronpc DOT com


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Message: 11
From: Simon Lurye <simon.lurye AT nsmg.veritas DOT com>
To: "'Dale_Kramer AT steris DOT com'" <Dale_Kramer AT steris DOT com>,
veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Tape Life
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 18:16:42 -0400
charset="iso-8859-1"

It's not always the tape life that counts.  Usually a tape that has been
mounted over 300 times is ready for retirement.  Because DLT's get spooled
completely out of the tape cartridge upon every mount, they experience wear
and tear no matter if the tape is written to or not.  

Simon Lurye
Senior Consultant
Veritas Software
(C) 917-864-0016, (H) 212-213-8587, 
(P) 888-782-4923, 7824923 AT mobilemessage DOT com


-----Original Message-----
From: Dale_Kramer AT steris DOT com [mailto:Dale_Kramer AT steris DOT com]
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 3:25 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Tape Life


     I hope someone can help me with this.  We use FujiFilm DLT tape IV for 
     our backups.  What is the useful life for this tape.  In other words 
     how many times can we back up to it dependably before we should 
     exchange it out for a new tape.
     
     thanx,
     dale
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Message: 12
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 20:09:14 -0400
From: Barbara & Stephen <bmhsec AT ix.netcom DOT com>
To: veritas-bu AT eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Catalog backup

All,

Up until last week, I've been successfully backing up the NB images
after each backup.  Since the catalogs were getting too big for the
filesystem it was on, I moved it to it's own filesytem.  I created the
links from /opt/openv/netbackup/db/images/ to the new images directory.
In NetBackup's database configuration, I listed the new filesytem
directory to backup: /NetBackup/Images.

Now, when the catalogs get backed up, I get the following error message:

Error Code 71, " none of the files in the file list exist".  Is there a
special configuration when the catalogs are moved to another
filesystem?  I'm running NetBackup 3.3.2 on Solaris 2.6.  Anyone have
any ideas?





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Message: 13
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 08:48:10 -0500
From: Paul Windsor <windsorpj AT lmtas.lmco DOT com>
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Organization: Computer Sciences Corp.
Subject: [Veritas-bu] DLT 4000 to DLT 7000 conversion

We are using NetBackup 3.2 on a SUN4000 (Solaris 2.6) and using two STK
9710 silos with 10 DLT 4000 each. Our plan is to upgrade the tape drives
to DLT 7000s. The questions are:

  1. Will NetBackup be able to read existing backup tapes ( the DLT IV 
      carts are used )

  2. After the upgrade will the tapes be written in DLT7000 mode or
must      the tapes be blank labeled 

  3. I have seen several different DLT7000 definitions for the st.conf
      file .... what is correct


Thanks for the help,

Paul

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Message: 14
From: "Vandevegt, James Matthew (Jim)" <vandevegt AT lucent DOT com>
To: veritas-bu AT eng.auburn DOT edu, "'Barbara & Stephen'" <bmhsec AT 
ix.netcom DOT com>
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Catalog backup
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 10:57:00 -0600

You need to update the file list to be backed up in the NetBackup DB Backup
Attributes. They are probably still on the default
/opt/openv/netbackup/db/images. Since this is now a symbolic link all you're
tarring is the symbolic link. Change to config to point to the new absolute
path where you're storing the images DB.

> ----------
> From:         Barbara & Stephen[SMTP:bmhsec AT ix.netcom DOT com]
> 
> Up until last week, I've been successfully backing up the NB images
> after each backup.  Since the catalogs were getting too big for the
> filesystem it was on, I moved it to it's own filesytem.  I created the
> links from /opt/openv/netbackup/db/images/ to the new images directory.
> In NetBackup's database configuration, I listed the new filesytem
> directory to backup: /NetBackup/Images.
> 
> Now, when the catalogs get backed up, I get the following error message:
> 
> Error Code 71, " none of the files in the file list exist".  Is there a
> special configuration when the catalogs are moved to another
> filesystem?  I'm running NetBackup 3.3.2 on Solaris 2.6.  Anyone have
> any ideas?
> 

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Message: 15
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 18:47:25 +0100
From: Mark Smiles <msmiles AT lucent DOT com>
To: Paul Windsor <windsorpj AT lmtas.lmco DOT com>
CC: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] DLT 4000 to DLT 7000 conversion

Paul,
In answer to question 3
In your /kernel/drv/st.conf, you need the following selected;

     "QUANTUM DLT7000",      "Quantum DLT7000", "DLT7k-data",
and
     DLT7k-data =    1,0x38,0,0x1D639,4,0x82,0x83,0x84,0x85,2;
Regards,
Mark

Paul Windsor wrote:

> We are using NetBackup 3.2 on a SUN4000 (Solaris 2.6) and using two STK
> 9710 silos with 10 DLT 4000 each. Our plan is to upgrade the tape drives
> to DLT 7000s. The questions are:
>
>   1. Will NetBackup be able to read existing backup tapes ( the DLT IV
>       carts are used )
>
>   2. After the upgrade will the tapes be written in DLT7000 mode or
> must      the tapes be blank labeled
>
>   3. I have seen several different DLT7000 definitions for the st.conf
>       file .... what is correct
>
> Thanks for the help,
>
> Paul
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Message: 16
From: Brian_Drager AT vanguard DOT com
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
cc: Curtis AT colltech DOT com
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 07:38:57 -0400
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Re: DLT Cleaning

Question about DLT Cleaning.

We turned auto clean off on out STK 9710.  We also added 5 DLT per each Silo
for
DLT-CLN. Last night we received a lot of media errors, status code 84 -86.
Non
of the drives were clean. I didn't open the robot  to see if cleaning lights
are
on. Any suggestions. Is there anything else we need to do to get the
cleaning to
work?

Thanks, Brian




Mark Kolodziejski
04/07/2000 11:52 AM

To:   Brian Drager/IT/VGI@VGINOTES
cc:
Subject:  Re: [Veritas-bu] Re: DLT Cleaning


---------------------- Forwarded by Mark Kolodziejski/IT/VGI on 04/07/2000
11:51
AM ---------------------------


"W. Curtis Preston" <curtis AT colltech DOT com> on 04/06/2000 07:02:55 PM

To:   Rob Worman <rob AT colltech DOT com>, Steve Wills <steve AT redhat DOT 
com>
cc:   Paul Weaver <paulw AT stratech DOT com>, veritas-bu AT eng.auburn DOT edu 
(bcc: Mark
      Kolodziejski/IT/VGI)
Subject:  Re: [Veritas-bu] Re: DLT Cleaning



Damn! Just when I thought I knew everything! ;)  If this functionality
works, this is a Beautiful Thing (tm).
Does anyone already have a script that uses cleanstats and complains if the
cleaning tape is out?

At 05:00 PM 4/6/00 -0600, Rob Worman wrote:
Something that Curtis didn't mention (I bet he wasn't aware of the
functionality, as it's certainly never made clear in the NetBackup GUI, but
it's mentioned on p.309 of the Media Manager 3.2 Admin Guide) is the fact
that NetBackup can control the cleaning tape *no matter which method you
choose* - time-based or demand-based.

>This is the way to have your cake and eat it too:
>
>    -turn off autoclean on your tape library
>    -insert a cleaning tape into your library and configure a
>     Netbackup volume of type "DLT-CLN"
>    -for each of your DLT drives in this library, set the
>     "Cleaning Frequency" to 0
>    -set up some sort of cronjob (you can use the
> /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/cleanstats, or write your own based on it) that
> will periodically check the cleaning tape and raise an alarm when it's
> about to run out.
>
>voila.  when one of your DLT's needs cleaning, a TapeAlert signal will get
>sent, NetBackup will clean the drive, and after this happens frequently
>enough, your cron job will email you that your cleaning tape needs to be
>replaced.  (note that this implies that you're running NBU 3.2 - I'm not
>sure if NBU <3.2 supports TapeAlert or not)

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Message: 17
From: "Marvin Blackburn" <mblackburn AT glenraven DOT com>
To: <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 07:41:33 -0400
charset="iso-8859-1"
Subject: [Veritas-bu] bpstart_notify.bat

We run netbackup 3.2 on HP-UX. This is our master server.
We backup clients on NT.
We have a need to do some preprocessing on the client side.
We want to use the bp_start.bat to do this.  Does anyone have any
scripts that they use to do this.  On the unix side, templates are provided.
That is not the case for NT.

We especailly need to be able to set the status as per the directions in the
book.

Any help would be appreciated.


------------------
Marvin Blackburn
Systems Administrator
Glen Raven Mills, Inc.
"He's no failure.  He's not dead yet" --William Lloyd George


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Message: 18
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 08:46:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mario Palafox <Mario.Palafox AT eng.sun DOT com>
Reply-To: Mario Palafox <Mario.Palafox AT eng.sun DOT com>
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Re: DLT Cleaning
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu, Brian_Drager AT vanguard DOT com
Cc: Curtis AT colltech DOT com

Brian,


        Did you set the frequency.  I have my frequency set to 200 hours of 
mount time.  It will vary from place to place.
        
        You can use the gui or command line.  
        
        
        tpclean -F device_name clean_frequency
        
        
        
        
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> 
> Question about DLT Cleaning.
> 
> We turned auto clean off on out STK 9710.  We also added 5 DLT per each
Silo 
for
> DLT-CLN. Last night we received a lot of media errors, status code 84 -86.
Non
> of the drives were clean. I didn't open the robot  to see if cleaning
lights 
are
> on. Any suggestions. Is there anything else we need to do to get the
cleaning 
to
> work?
> 
> Thanks, Brian
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Mark Kolodziejski
> 04/07/2000 11:52 AM
> 
> To:   Brian Drager/IT/VGI@VGINOTES
> cc:
> Subject:  Re: [Veritas-bu] Re: DLT Cleaning
> 
> 
> ---------------------- Forwarded by Mark Kolodziejski/IT/VGI on 04/07/2000

11:51
> AM ---------------------------
> 
> 
> "W. Curtis Preston" <curtis AT colltech DOT com> on 04/06/2000 07:02:55 PM
> 
> To:   Rob Worman <rob AT colltech DOT com>, Steve Wills <steve AT redhat DOT 
> com>
> cc:   Paul Weaver <paulw AT stratech DOT com>, veritas-bu AT eng.auburn DOT 
> edu (bcc:
Mark
>       Kolodziejski/IT/VGI)
> Subject:  Re: [Veritas-bu] Re: DLT Cleaning
> 
> 
> 
> Damn! Just when I thought I knew everything! ;)  If this functionality
> works, this is a Beautiful Thing (tm).
> Does anyone already have a script that uses cleanstats and complains if
the
> cleaning tape is out?
> 
> At 05:00 PM 4/6/00 -0600, Rob Worman wrote:
> Something that Curtis didn't mention (I bet he wasn't aware of the
> functionality, as it's certainly never made clear in the NetBackup GUI,
but
> it's mentioned on p.309 of the Media Manager 3.2 Admin Guide) is the fact
> that NetBackup can control the cleaning tape *no matter which method you
> choose* - time-based or demand-based.
> 
> >This is the way to have your cake and eat it too:
> >
> >    -turn off autoclean on your tape library
> >    -insert a cleaning tape into your library and configure a
> >     Netbackup volume of type "DLT-CLN"
> >    -for each of your DLT drives in this library, set the
> >     "Cleaning Frequency" to 0
> >    -set up some sort of cronjob (you can use the
> > /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/cleanstats, or write your own based on it) that
> > will periodically check the cleaning tape and raise an alarm when it's
> > about to run out.
> >
> >voila.  when one of your DLT's needs cleaning, a TapeAlert signal will
get
> >sent, NetBackup will clean the drive, and after this happens frequently
> >enough, your cron job will email you that your cleaning tape needs to be
> >replaced.  (note that this implies that you're running NBU 3.2 - I'm not
> >sure if NBU <3.2 supports TapeAlert or not)
> 
> ---
> W. Curtis Preston, Principal Consultant at Collective Technologies
> Email: curtis AT colltech DOT com                (Best way to contact me)
> Work : 408 452 5555                       (Leave a message.)
> Pager: 800 946 4646, pin#1436065        (If urgent.)
> 
> Tap into the Collective Intellect (TM): http://www.colltech.com
> Backup & Restore resources:        http://www.backupcentral.com
> 
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