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not sure if you would need a reboot. i've performed the same operations,
~ by resetting the storage adaptor on the filers
disable and then enable the adaptor. see storage command on filer.
Sto Rage© wrote:
| If the drives are connected via SCSI directly to the filer, then a
| reboot is required. If they are on FC, then sysconfig -t would rescan
| the bus without a reboot.
| Changing the drive order would require a change in netback config,
| 'cause now what used to be drive 3 on netbackup is now nrst1a on the
| filer, so when a load command is sent to drive 3, the tape would get
| loaded on drive 4.
|
| We swap the drives physically in our library when we run into such
| issues, so that the configs don't change on the netapp or netbackup.
| But then we have FC connections from the netapp, so they don't need a
| reboot.
| Hope this helps
| -G
|
| On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:26:05 -0000, Khan Imran A
| <Imran.a.Khan AT uk.fujitsu DOT com> wrote:
|
|>
|>
|>
|>Hi
|>
|>
|>
|>This system has Windows 2000 backup server connected to two drives (1 & 2)
|>in a L80 library. The other two drives (3 & 4) are connected to
directly to
|>a NetApps, robot is controlled by the windows server. One of the NDMP
drives
|>keeps going down to identify where the problem we have swapped drives so
|>drive 4 in the library connects to 1st SCSI channel on filer and drive 3
|>connects to the 2nd channel previously it was the other way around. Is
there
|>a way of running something on the filer to refresh the SCSI bus without a
|>reboot, so it sees the new drive order or does a reboot have to take place
|>and secondly when the original configuration was done the drive 3 and 4 in
|>NetBackup are configured as
|>
|>
|>(1) filer1:nrst0a
|>(2) filer1.nrst1a
|>
|>
|>
|>Since we have swapped the drives around would we have to change
anything in
|>NetBackup or is the path the same.
|>
|>
|>
|>And can someone remind me of the commands that can be run on the filer to
|>retrieve the path of the drives as above
|>
|>
|>
|>Kind Regards,
|>
|>
|>
|>Imran Khan
|>
|>
|
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