I've always used Drive Control in the Device Management GUI.  Just reset the
drive first to unload the tape and UP the drive.  This typically works
unless there is a major hardware problem.

Barb Martin
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-----Original Message-----
From: David A. Chapa [mailto:david AT datastaff DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 2:21 PM
To: Jeff Kennedy
Cc: Veritas-bu List
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] up'ing a drive


/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmoprcmd -up <drive index>

that will do it.

David

Quoting Jeff Kennedy <jlkennedy AT amcc DOT com>:

> Is there a way to up a drive without restarting the 
media manager
> daemons?  I had a drive drop on me and couldn't 
restart the backup for
> that client because other backups were in progress 
and I couldn't shut
> down the MM daemons to up it.  I am running NBU 3.4 
on Solaris 7.
> 
> Thanks.
> -- 
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> Unix Administrator
> AMCC
> jlkennedy AT amcc DOT com
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