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[Veritas-bu] how to mount a tape and tell NetBackup to use it for file restore

2001-09-10 18:18:30
Subject: [Veritas-bu] how to mount a tape and tell NetBackup to use it for file restore
From: larry.kingery AT veritas DOT com (Larry Kingery)
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:18:30 -0400 (EDT)
Go to the device management window and you'll see a pending request.
Choose the request and select resubmit.  You can achieve the
equivalent using vmoprcmd.

HTH,
L

dayal singh writes:
>  I am also running into the similar problem. After loading the tape and doing 
> an inventory, still the restore waits forever. What I am doing is to kill the 
> restore and restart it. But someone on the list can share their thoughts on 
> fixing this problem
> 
> Dayal
> 
> --
> 
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 12:42:55  
>  Dong Wang wrote:
> >I am practicing restoring files from offsited tapes. The following are the
> >steps I took:
> >
> >1. the tape was ejected from the robot by using the xbpadm interface (select
> >the tape, then Actions->Eject)
> >2. restore a file that is backed up on the ejected tape. Within the xbpadm
> >interface, when checking the progress report, it shows:
> >
> >Sep 10 12:15:37 2001
> >
> >12:15:39 (1077.xxx) Restore job id 1077 will require 1 image.
> >12:15:39 (1077.xxx) Media id A00035 is needed for the restore.
> >
> >12:15:47 (1077.001) Restoring from image created Sun Sep 09 00:08:14 2001
> >12:15:49 (1077.001) INF - Waiting for mount of media id A00035 on server
> >admin.
> >12:15:50 (1077.001) INF - Media id A00035 is not in a robotic library;
> >administrative interaction may be required to satisfy a mount request.
> >
> >3. Then I inserted the tape to the mail slot location of the magazine.
> >
> >4. Now how do I tell NetBackup that the tape with Media id A00035 is in the
> >mail slot and mount it?
> >(there is no barcode on the tape)
> >
> >Thanks a lot for your help.
> >
> >
> >
> >> Dong Wang
> >> Grand Central Networks
> >> dwang AT grandcentral DOT com
> >> 
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