Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup job gets to mounting tape but never to position

Are you certain that the host can communicate with the drive?  I don't see
any message that the tape was successfully mounted.  NetBackup may not
think that the tape is mounted if it can't communicate with the drive.

You could try an mt command on the device to see if you can communicate
with it.  Alternatively, you could use robtest to mount a tape in that
drive, then use the dd command to see if you can read from it.  Say your
drive is at /dev/rmt/0cbn ...

mt -f /dev/rmt/0cbn

Use robtest to mount a tape in the drive, then
dd if=/dev/rmt/0cbn bs=65536 count=1
If the tape has previously been used by netbackup and has a volume header
on it, you should see the tape volser somewhere in the output from the dd
command

Were any changes made to the server or drive?  Is the drive SAN attached or
SCSI?  How many drives  do you have?  If it's a SAN drive, are you using
persistent binding so that the device assignments don't change if the
server is rebooted?
--
Jack Forester, Jr.
Senior Data Protection Analyst
Symantec Certified Specialist - NetBackup 7.0 for UNIX Administration
Global Technology Services
Mylan
781 Chestnut Ridge Road
Morgantown, WV 26505

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From:   Dennis Peacock <nbu-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>
To:     VERITAS-BU AT MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN DOT EDU
Date:   01/15/2013 05:37 PM
Subject:        [Veritas-bu] Backup job gets to mounting tape but never to
            position
Sent by:        veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu



NBU 7.1x running on Solaris 9 box.

01/15/2013 16:29:29 - Info bptm (pid=24504) Waiting for mount of media id
EF0997 (copy 1) on server gandalf.
01/15/2013 16:29:29 - mounting EF0997

and it sits there forever....until the job fails. This has been a working
environment and there are 2 clients that backup to this master server/media
server. It just doesn't like backing itself up.

Any ideas?

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