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RES: [Veritas-bu] vmchange not behaving

2004-12-14 12:11:32
Subject: RES: [Veritas-bu] vmchange not behaving
From: david.trostli AT veritas-software.com DOT br (David Trostli)
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:11:32 -0200
You cannot change volume pool of cleaning tapes

regards,

David

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Assunto: RE: [Veritas-bu] vmchange not behaving


No SSO, but two media servers.  On further testing, vmchange is fine
with modifying number of mounts left, media description and volume
group.

Marshall Skare
ATIS - Unix Engineering

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Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] vmchange not behaving

Are you using SSO with multiple Media servers?

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Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] vmchange not behaving

> Am I being a knucklehead by trying to assign a cleaning tape to an
> invalid
Volume Pool?

Well... ummm... Yes.

Cleaning tapes are always in the "None" pool.

HP says there's no recoomended cleaning frequency on LTO drives. Just
clean it when the drive asks for it.  The installation manual I found
for the Viper seems to imply this as well.

-M

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Subject: [Veritas-bu] vmchange not behaving


Hi everyone,

I'm trying to get an LTO cleaning tape setup within our system, and I'm
running into a strange problem.  We're running 4.5GA on Solaris 8 Master
and Media servers with an L700 jukebox.

After setting up a cleaning tape using the wizard, I wanted to move the
tape from the None volume pool to the NetBackup volume pool.  The GUI
wasn't doing it for me, so I thought I'd try it using CLI by issuing the
following command from the master server:

./vmchange -h crmmdb17 -p 1 -m A00000

I went to check the tape to make sure it had switched pools, alas:

# ./vmquery -m A00000
========================================================================
====
====
media ID:              A00000
media type:            1/2" cleaning tape (13)
barcode:               --------
media description:     Cleaning Tape
volume pool:           None (0)
robot type:            TLD - Tape Library DLT (8)
robot number:          0
robot slot:            3
robot control host:    crmmdb17
volume group:          NetBackup
vault name:            ---
vault sent date:       ---
vault return date:     ---
vault slot:            ---
vault session id:      ---
created:               Mon Dec 13 14:59:35 2004
assigned:              ---
last mounted:          ---
first mount:           ---
expiration date:       ---
cleanings left:        0
========================================================================
====
====

I didn't get any complaint from the vmchange command, so I'm not sure
what's going on here.  I tried looking through bptm logs to see if there
were any hints there, but found nothing.  Am I being a knucklehead by
trying to assign a cleaning tape to an invalid Volume Pool?

Unrelated question, but one that's bothered me for a while.  How long
will an LTO drive go before it needs to be cleaned?  We're running
Seagate Vipers with over a thousand hours on them without having been
cleaned.  None of them are showing a cleaning light, but I have no idea
if that behavior is normal or not.

Thanks for any help!


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