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Re: [Networker] Faulty device status info
2006-11-27 10:22:05
On Nov 27, 2006, at 9:46 AM — 11/27/06, Stuart Whitby wrote:
Hmm. Maybe a bit late, but if you can identify the save which
thinks it's writing to that drive, that should filter back through
to NetWorker. Should be obtainable from the daemon.log if you
can't get it using lsof against the [dead] nsrmmd.
Otherwise, if all other backups on that storage node are done, you
may be able to kill off the nsrexecd process on that system. The
server will see this and restart the mmds. It *may* be possible to
try running a small save to that pool with other drives in service
mode. Haven't tried this, but this may force nsrd into realising
that the mmd is no longer there.
This is very strange. I killed off the save that was going to that
device, then after a while, I killed the nsrmmd for it.
On the basis of the email from Bob Wood, I tried adjusting the tape
library resource, but it gave me an error that said it needed 13
tapes loaded. I then noticed that in the list of tapes, one item in
the list was blank, so I filled it in with the proper label, then I
manually loaded that tape into the affected tape drive via the
library's control panel. I then tried to use nsrjb -HEv on that
drive. It did attempt to unload the tape, but it failed because the
tape is defective (probably munged tape marks), so I tried using
"nsrjb -u" and it again complained that the tape was is write mode!
Sigh!
Bouncing nsrexecd is not an option because this tape library is
connected to the server and I have some other backups in progress
that I don't want to interrupt.
Unless someone else has any ideas, I guess I will just have to do
without that tape drive for a couple of days until I can shut down
the networker daemons, empty out /nsr/tmp and restart stuff. Oh well!
Thanks
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