Re: [Networker] Stopped mounting tapes

Stan,

Yikes...

So your saying an nsrjb to inventory or load hangs?   I assume
the sji commands all work...ie  sjirdtag returns an accurate inventory,
sjimm is able to move tapes (indicating a fully working arm).  You
didn't say how the drives and arm are connected (SCSI, fiber)?

I would sji commands first,  then nsrjb -HEv to reset the library 
(assuming it doesn't hang) followed by an inventory.  That is on an
idle server.

If you have backups pending that need to complete I would give Networker
what it wants.. mount all tapes manually until the pending mounts go away.

Could be anything from lock files in /nsr/tmp to a lus/SAN problem.


Robert Maiello
Pioneer Data Systems





On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:51:05 -0400, Stan Horwitz <stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote:

>Does anyone have any ideas on why NetWorker 7.2.1 on Solaris 9 with a
>Sony PetaSite would stop mounting tapes? We just upgraded to 7.2.1,
>but I was having some problems along these lines for the past week or
>so, but not this bad. Several tape drives are available, as are
>tapes. I tried killing off the pending nsrjb processes and then
>manually using nsrjb to label a tape and it just sits there. I can do
>"nsrjb -C" and I get a very fast response with output that matches
>nsrwatch for the state of the tape drives. I am not seeing any errors
>at all in /var/adm/messages either. I just did an "nsrim -X" but that
>did not help.
>
>Any suggestions on how to resolve this issue will be appreciated.
>
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