I have seen some flaky things with Vault (like the windows interface
writing verifiably wrong entries into the vault config file!)

I am not sure which interface you are running, but take a look at the
XML definitions written in /usr/openv/netbackup/db/vault/vault.xml.  You
should be able to see the entries in there that specify the volume pool
to draw tapes from.  You can change this manually, and then try a vault
job to see how things go.  Q & D, but I haven't got anything else to
suggest.

Mark Hickey
Senior Technology Consultant
Glasshouse Technologies
www.glasshouse.com

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   1. Vault 4.5MP3 problems with volume groups (Wayne T. Smith)

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Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 11:53:30 -0400
From: "Wayne T. Smith" <WTSmith AT maine DOT edu>
To: Veritas Netbackup mailing list <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Vault 4.5MP3 problems with volume groups

Background: I'm just configuring VAULT 4.5MP3.  I started with several 
vaults and more profiles and backed up some data.  Then I bpexpdate'd 
those duplication and catalog tapes and discarded the vault 
configuration (from the GUI).  I didn't understand how VAULT was to use 
volume groups.  Then I had a test vault, with test volume groups and 
volume pools. It seemed to work OK. Then I copied that vault and profile

to a new vault and profile and proceeded to change all of the names 
(volume pools and groups) and other config for use in "production" 
(again using GUI).

On the new "to-be-production" vault, the duplications are going OK. 
Tapes are selected from the appropriate group/pool and changed to my new

"dup" volume pool.  Catalog backups fail with no media available. When I

look in the logs, vault is looking for tapes in my old test group, not 
the new, currently defined group.  If I put tapes in the old test cat 
group, the catalog backups run fine. Finally, During the eject/report 
stages, vault finds the catalog tapes to backup, but does not find the 
duplication tapes. The logs show it is looking at the old test group for

dups instead of the currently defined volume group.

Anyone seen anything like this or have a way "out"?  I guess that I'll 
have to throw away all my current dup's, delete the configuration, go in

and delete any files left around, and hope that I find everything (but 
don't remove anything vital to NBU/DC & VAULT.   Suggestions?

cheers, wayne



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