Actually I tried that too, but again, maybe I didn't wait long enough for
it to timeout.
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Costa, Christopher wrote:
> You can do that or use the robtest utility. This usually takes the
> control of the robot away from NetBackup. The drives should go into AVR
> mode.
>
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rosenkoetter, Gabriel [mailto:Gabriel.Rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 10:56 AM
> To: Joe Royer; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] disable tld
>
> Do something that always takes the robot offline, like opening the front
> door.
>
>
> --
> gabriel rosenkoetter
> Radian Group Inc, Unix/Linux/VMware Sysadmin / Backup & Recovery
> gabriel.rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz, 215 231 1556
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Royer [mailto:jroyer AT digitalmotorworks DOT com]
> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 7:53 PM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] disable tld
>
> Is there a way to manually down tld0, thus forcing the library drives to
> AVR?
> I tried upoprbyname and that still put the drives in TLD.
>
> Today is not a good day. The robot is dead, and the vendor is having
> "logistics issues" which means I have been waiting on a replacement part
> for 9
> hours now. Occasionally NetBackup downs tld0 on its own, the drives go
> to AVR,
> and I can manually switch tapes to keep things flowing. Just as
> magically, the
> robot will start responding again, NBU up's tld0 and the drives that
> aren't
> currently busy go down.
>
> If there is some way to force the drives to AVR, I can finish flushing
> my DSSUs
> and be relatively ok until the parts arrive (I hope). I have tried
> unplugging
> the fibre connection to the robot (not the drives) and that didn't work,
> but I
> only waited about 10 minutes, so maybe I didn't satisfy some timeout.
>
> Help
>
> PS: Said vendor is being flogged, I'm angling for Platinum support at
> Silver
> prices since that's the level of service I have recieved today.
>
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