Is your master also used as the media server?  If you're using two different 
machines, you might only need to change hosts on the device monitor window 
to view the drive.


>From: "O'Shea, Don" <Don.OShea AT emergis DOT com>
>To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Help Needed
>Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:46:19 -0500
>
>All, thanks for your input. Well it appears that it did the trick for
>getting rid of the hung jobs, I still however do not see my drive in the
>device monitor although it appears to be working. I kicked off some test
>backups and they are running fine. I may be wrong but I thought even if
>there are no pending requests I should still have the ability to up or down
>the drive if I so choose.
>
>Don
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: David A. Chapa [mailto:david AT datastaff DOT com]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 9:13 AM
>To: Dennis Dwyer; Don.OShea AT emergis DOT com;
>veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Help Needed
>
>
>This may not be supported, but what you need to do is return your install 
>to
>a pristine state.  If you have jobs that appear, key work APPEAR to be
>running but aren't, my suggestion is:
>
>1. make sure no other jobs are ready to kick off.
>2. jot down the jobid numbers for each of these 'hanging' jobs, then stop
>the daemons if possible.
>3. delete them from the jobs db area
>       cd /usr/openv/netbackup/db/jobs
>       rm ./$jobid* ./$jobid.*
>4. restart the daemons
>
>Your "hanging" jobs will be gone.
>
>I have done this a thousand times with no problems, but I can assure you
>this is not a supported method of resolving your issue.  At least not with
>the first phone call...
>
>David
>
><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
>David A. Chapa
>Consulting Manager
>DataStaff, Inc.
>847 413 1144
>http://www.consulting.datastaff.com
>---------------------------------------
>NBU-LSERV AT datastaff DOT com - Adv. Scripting
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: veritas-bu-admin AT Eng.Auburn DOT EDU
>[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT Eng.Auburn DOT EDU]On Behalf Of Dennis Dwyer
>Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 7:45 PM
>To: Don.OShea AT emergis DOT com; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Help Needed
>
>
>What exactly have you tried? Have you tried to KILL the running NBU backup
>jobs outside the NBU GUIs? Have you cycled the NBU daemons? You don't say
>whether your platform is UNIX or NT based. The approach paths would be
>different for each.
>
>Regards,
>Dennis Dwyer
>Tampa Electric Company
>
> >>> "O'Shea, Don" <Don.OShea AT emergis DOT com> 02/13/01 20:20 PM >>>
>I have a problem I am hoping someone can help with. We recently ran out of
>space on our server which caused the backups to hang that night. Since that
>night I have not been able to get them to work. I have 3 backups that show
>as active for 4 days now and one as requed. No matter what I try they will
>not go away. I checked the logs and saw some errors in the bpsched log for
>the past few days that it cannot get cient list and now it is reporting
>there are no storage units available. We have a standalone DLT drive that
>the system recognizes fine but when I go into device monitor, I don't see 
>it
>which does not allow me to control it. I have used up my limited attempts 
>to
>find the problem and resolve it so any help would be appreciated.
>
>Don O'Shea
>Systems Analyst
>BCE Emergis
>Financial Services Division
>Phone: (905) 707-4000 Ext. 3765
>Fax: (905) 707-4329
>mailto:don.oshea AT emergis DOT com
>
>
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