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Re: [Veritas-bu] Cannot Write to Tape

2010-04-13 11:24:00
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Cannot Write to Tape
From: "WEAVER, Simon \(external\)" <simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net>
To: "McDonald II, James F." <JAMES.F.MCDONALD.II AT saic DOT com>, "Justin Piszcz" <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:23:47 +0100
James
Is it worth creating a new policy, ensuring the STORAGE UNIT that it is
using is in fact the Tape Storage Unit.

This assumes that the Barcode labelling is corrected

Simon 

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II, James F.
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:07 PM
To: Justin Piszcz
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Cannot Write to Tape

NBU has been writing to disk for a while, but I just recently tried
setting up the tape backups, for off-site storage.  I have run
inventories and it says the volume configuration is up-to-date with the
contents.

-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:55 AM
To: McDonald II, James F.
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Cannot Write to Tape

Hi,

Please include the list in the future.
It appears you need to limit your labels to 6 characters.
Check the volume manager manual, you need to edit vm.conf for NBU 6.x++
the labels for LTOX should be no more than 6 characters long, if your
barcode reader reads more than the first 6 characters, you need to limit

it.

BTW, is this a new environment?
Or did this just start happening?
If it just started happening, have you run an inventory and retried the
backup?

Justin.

On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, McDonald II, James F. wrote:

> Here is what I got when I ran the test:
>
> Opening {4,0,33,1}
> MODE_SENSE Complete
> Enter tld commands (? returns help information) s d drive 1 (addr 32) 
> access = 1 Contains Cartridge = Yes Barcode = 000001L4 SCSI ID from 
> drive 1 is 0 READ_ELEMENT_STATUS Complete
>
> I tried double-checking the barcode result, by doing a robot
inventory.
> 000001L4 was not included in the inventory, but I'm almost positive
it's
> in there.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:12 AM
> To: WEAVER, Simon (external)
> Cc: McDonald II, James F.; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Cannot Write to Tape
>
> Hi,
>
> Reboot the master, run robtest and run "s d" does it show the drives
OK?
>
> Justin.
>
> On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, WEAVER, Simon (external) wrote:
>
>> Have you rebooted the Master just in case?
>> Anything changed to cause this problem?
>> Have you enabled any logging?
>>
>> Simon
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of
> McDonald
>> II, James F.
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 1:43 PM
>> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Cannot Write to Tape
>>
>>
>>
>> My backups write to disk without any problem, but when I try to run a

>> Tape Backup I get one of three status codes: 200, 252 or 800.  I have

>> researched all three and still have not been able to come up with a 
>> solution.  I am running NBU 6.5 for Windows on a Dell 2950 with
Server
>> 2003 as the OS.  The tape drive is a Dell PV-124T.  Diagnostics run
> from
>> the tapeloader all seem to pass and the inventories run from within
> NBU
>> all seem to be correct, but I can't get anything to begin to write.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> James McDonald
>>
>> System Administrator
>>
>> SAIC - IISBU
>>
>> 410-312-2232
>>
>> mcdonaldjf AT saic DOT com <mailto:mcdonaldjf AT saic DOT com>
>>
>>
>>
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