I'm having problems
restoring a cumulative incremental standard policy backup stored on an LTO2 tape
on an LTO4 drive. The density settings for the LTO2 tapes on my system is HCART,
for LTO4 it's HCART3. I've run restores where I've set one of the LTO4 drives as
density HCART in the device manager, restarted LTID and then created a storage
unit for the LTO4 drive with the HCART density setting. I've also been able to
run restores by setting the write protect tab on the LTO2 tape and then using
vmchange to change the density to HCART3.
I've been trying to
restore from two tapes from a backup in November and I keep getting
messages like this in the status window.
2/19/2008 12:59:46
PM - begin Restore
2/19/2008 12:59:48 PM - 1 images required
2/19/2008
12:59:48 PM - media K00443 required
2/19/2008 12:59:52 PM - restoring image
spike.zgi.com_1195784616
2/19/2008 12:59:54 PM - connecting
2/19/2008
12:59:56 PM - connected; connect time: 00:00:02
2/19/2008 12:59:56 PM -
requesting resource K00443
2/19/2008 12:59:56 PM - granted resource
K00443
2/19/2008 12:59:56 PM - granted resource rmt-3cbn
2/19/2008
12:59:58 PM - Warning bptm(pid=546) media id K00443 not found in Media Manager,
mount request will most likely occur
2/19/2008 12:59:58 PM - started process
bptm (546)
2/19/2008 12:59:58 PM - mounting K00443
I don't know why I'm
getting the "media id not found in media manager" error. The tape shows up if
you do a bpmedialist or a vmquery. What I see is that the tape loads into the
proper drive, does nothing for a while and then then NetBackup says that it is
done with the tape (in this case K00443) and needs to load the next tape, which
it identifies as K00443 (this is a one tape restore, I'm only interested in
restoring the cumulative incremental backups from two days) and downs the tape
drive. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to deal with
this?
Thanks,
Jamie
Jamison
