The best thing to do is do all the configurations from the master.

Delete anything you have on any of your other Media Servers and check under
/usr/openv/volmgr/database and see if the VolDB size is greater than 0, if
it is then shut down the daemons on that server and delete it.  Also delete
what you have configured on that server.

If it's an NT replace Daemon with Service and /usr/openv with c:\program
files\veritas

Now go to the master and from there in it's media manager GUI create the
robot and the multi hosted drives.  This way the logical name will be the
same on all servers and the volume database host will be the master or what
ever system you set up as the robotic control host.

I can't stress enough how important it is to do it this way.  No matter how
adept you are at NetBackup, you are prone to screwing this up in a SAN
environment and running the GUI on the master keeps you safer.  This is one
of the few things that the GUI does much better than the command line
interface.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Harold Skelly Jr. [mailto:hskelly AT colltech DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 5:27 PM
To: ricky.l.keahey AT intel DOT com
Cc: hskelly AT colltech DOT com; dsixbury AT saint-lukes DOT org;
veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] 81 errors


Oooops, I expressed that incorrectly.  The drive(s) should be uniquely
named.
If a drive is visible to more that one host, it should be visible as the
same
name on each host.  It comes from the 2nd page of the change attributes of
a multihosted drive using the java GUI.


Hal

"Keahey, Ricky L asserts: "
=] 
=] Just curious.  This is the first time that I have heard about naming the
=] drives different on each server.  What is the purpose of this?  Does it
=] cause problems if the drives are named the same on each server?  The
wizard
=] I have found is very helpful if you only have one media server in your
=] environment, but if you have more than one host controller it can really
=] mess things up.  I myself also use the tpconfig in a script to configure
the
=] drives.
=] 
=] Rick
=] 
=] -----Original Message-----
=] From: Harold Skelly Jr. [mailto:hskelly AT colltech DOT com]
=] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 4:43 PM
=] To: dsixbury AT saint-lukes DOT org
=] Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
=] Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] 81 errors
=] 
=] 
=] Dan, do you actually see the shared drive on media server, server2?  I
found
=] the 
=] wizards to be non-helpful in setting up SSO.  I used the tpconfig
interface
=] with
=] much better effect.
=] 
=] Hal
=] 
=] ps.  don't forget to name the drives uniquely on each server even though
=] shared.
=] H.
=] 
=] "Sixbury, Dan asserts: "
=] =] 
=] =]  
=] =] I am backing up via 2 media servers across a SAN to shared tape drive
in
=] a
=] =] library.  Master/Media server1 is able to back up without problems to
the
=] =] library.
=] =] 
=] =] When I try to backup files from/through media server, server2 I get 81
=] =] errors.  81 says that the Media Manager volume daemon is not active,
yet
=] I
=] =] can tell that the vmd is in fact running.  If I play around with
vm.conf
=] I
=] =] will sometimes get a status 96 error?
=] =] 
=] =] Thanks,
=] =] Dan
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