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[Veritas-bu] Media Frozen

2002-10-30 18:58:52
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Media Frozen
From: ssesar AT rcn DOT com (Steven L. Sesar)
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 18:58:52 -0500
On Wednesday 30 October 2002 12:51 pm, Katherine Cerqueira wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I should have mentioned that I am running on a Unix platform and I have
> checked the media errors file but it's not reporting any errors for the
> media. I have not re-used these tapes.
>
> Thanks for your suggestions.  The bperror -U command is quita useful.  It
> is telling me that I have Netbackup database data on those tapes so it
> won't use them so I am on the right track now.  I am just glad that there
> is nothing wrong with the tapes.
>
> Thanks.

Do you actually have catalog backups on those tapes? 

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy Vosberg [mailto:Roy.Vosberg AT veritas DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 12:42 PM
> To: 'Katherine Cerqueira'; 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Media Frozen
>
>
> Try running:
>   /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bperror -U -media
>
>
>
> Logs to look at:
>
> @ the NetBackup Server (ensure that VERBOSE is in the
> /usr/openv/netbackup/bp.conf file):
> create the /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/bptm directory
>
> retry the backup, check the log file in the above directory along with
> /var/adm/messages
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Katherine Cerqueira [mailto:kcerqueira AT team.look DOT ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 11:08 AM
> To: 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Media Frozen
>
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I know that media gets frozen due to media errors but to my knowledge,
> there have been no media errors.  I noticed today that I have 6 tapes that
> are in a frozen state and I am not sure why?  If I unfreeze them, the
> backup job mounts them and then tries but it times out eventually when
> trying to write to them.  They eventually freeze again.  Any ideas as to
> what I should be looking at?  Thanks for any help.
>
> Katherine
> .
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