I've always done restores either from the command line tool bprestore or
the menu tool bpadm.    The progress log file specifies which tapes will
be required, so just tail -f <your_progress_logfile>.


On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Jason Ahrens [ahrensj AT psi DOT ca] wrote:

> I was also told (by this list) the only way to find out what tapes are
> required for a restore it to start it, let it fail or kill it, find out what
> tapes were requested, and then restart it. If this is not the proper way,
> how is it supposed to be done? The documentation I have does not say
> anything about this topic.
> 
> Jason
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David A. Chapa [mailto:david AT datastaff DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 3:21 PM
> To: Veritas-bu List
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] up'ing a drive
> 
> 
> This isn't the first time I have heard this exact 
> question.  I've been hearing this a lot lately, 
> especially teaching the NetBackup Classes...about 
> having to stop the Media Manager daemons.  
> 
> Does anyone know where it came from?
> 
> I've also heard people say that they have been "told" 
> that in order to do a restore of a tape that's not 
> currently in the Tape Library, they have to KILL the 
> restore job (after they start it to find out what tape 
> is required), find the tape and put it in the tape 
> library, then RESTART the restore job...now I know 
> that's not true ;-)
> 
> just curious...thanks 
> 
> David
> 
> 
> Quoting "Arsenault, Donald (FUSA)" 
> <DonaldArsenault AT firstusa DOT com>:
> 
> > use:
> > vmoprcmd  -h <volume_database_host>  -upbyname   
> <drive_name>
> > 
> > This does not require stopping the Media manager.
> > 
> > Donald J. Arsenault
> > First USA Bank, NA
> > 201 North Walnut St.
> > Wilmington, DE  19801
> > Ph. (302)434-7626
> > Fax (302)594-4020
> > MS DE1-1231
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeff Kennedy [mailto:jlkennedy AT amcc DOT com]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 2:10 PM
> > To: Veritas-bu List
> > Subject: [Veritas-bu] up'ing a drive
> > 
> > 
> > Is there a way to up a drive without restarting the 
> media manager
> > daemons?  I had a drive drop on me and couldn't 
> restart the backup for
> > that client because other backups were in progress 
> and I couldn't shut
> > down the MM daemons to up it.  I am running NBU 3.4 
> on Solaris 7.
> > 
> > Thanks.
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