[Veritas-bu] Netbackup DB tapes
2001-01-03 09:36:31
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[Veritas-bu] Netbackup DB tapes |
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David A. Chapa david AT datastaff DOT com |
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Wed, 3 Jan 2001 06:36:31 -0800 (PST) |
I'm sure someone has replied to this but since I
haven't gotten through all of my mail since returning
form the holidays I'll just blinding reply anyway...
NBU will NEVER overwrite a Netbackup DB tape, NEVER.
it sees the header and naturally assumes (and
rightfully) that this tape may be critical to your DR
plan and it freezes the tape. This forces us
to 'trash' the header on the tape.
I know there are a host of way to accomplish this, so
here are a couple.
the 'old way' (back in the 1.6 days) we would have to
dd the tape then relable it.
tpreq -ev MEDID -d density -p POOL -f filmntpoint
dd if=/etc/hosts of=/dev/rmt/device_file_for_the_tape
tpunmount filmntpoint
bplabel -ev MEDID -d denisty -p POOLNAME
OR
you can force bplabel with overwrite option
bplabel -ev MEDID -d density -p Poolname -o
This saves you all of the previous steps, but as I have
said before, old habits are hard to break.
David
Quoting "Pearson, Kim (STP)" <kim.pearson AT guidant DOT com>:
> We use bpvault to backup our NetBackup database. We
are attempting to
> re-use
> NB Database backup tapes (from bpvault) after they
have expired.
>
> We are seeing the following errors logged from
Netbackup:
>
> 01/01/01 18:27:51 bigbuserver bigbuserver FREEZING
media id 000157, it
> contains
> NetBackup database backup data
and cannot be used for
> backups
>
> This is happening on over 30 different tapes. Is
there something special we
> need to do to re-introduce these tapes?? Have you
seen this before?? Here
> is a vmquery output:
>
> stpsn066# ./vmquery -m 000157
>
========================================================
====================
> ====
> media ID: 000157
> media type: DLT cartridge tape (11)
> barcode: 000157
> description: ------
> volume pool: ScratchPool (7)
> robot type: TLD - Tape Library DLT (8)
> robot number: 1
> robot slot: 16
> robot host: cphom
> volume group: 00_001_TLD
> created: Fri Aug 13 13:59:39 1999
> assigned: ---
> last mounted: Mon Jan 01 18:30:49 2001
> first mount: Sat Aug 14 05:54:28 1999
> expiration date: ---
> number of mounts: 8
> max mounts allowed: 250
>
========================================================
====================
> ====
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kim Pearson
>
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David A. Chapa
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DataStaff, Inc.
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