Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] Cleaning Quandary

2006-09-14 14:18:25
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Cleaning Quandary
From: brooksje at longwood.edu (Brooks, Jason)
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 14:18:25 -0400
They do show up as cleaning, HC3_CLN, pool NONE and present in the
robot.  We are running LTO3 drives.

Jason 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu 
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf 
> Of Roy Vosberg
> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 1:29 PM
> To: Bobby Williams; Brooks, Jason; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Cleaning Quandary
> 
>  
> Correct.  Else Libraries without barcode readers could not 
> use cleaning tapes.
> Run the command   ..\Volmgr\bin\vmquery -m <tape_ID>
> That will tell you the type, pool, and the robot number / slot number
> 
> If there is no robot number / slot number then that is the problem.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf 
> Of Bobby Williams
> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 11:36 AM
> To: Brooks, Jason; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Cleaning Quandary
> 
> Your barcodes don't have to have CLN in them.
> 
> You do, however, have to have them defined as Cleaning tapes 
> and of the correct type as the drives.  But it looks like you 
> have that (pending that your drives are hcart3).
> 
> I would wonder why you would share the drives between a 
> master and a media server.  You probably are wasting money on 
> either an SSO license or the media server license.  With only 
> 2 drives in an i2K, you are running on overkill anyway.  But 
> then I don't know anything about your environment.
> 
> SSO and cleaning tapes were an issue in the 4.5MP6 days, but 
> when I upgraded to 5.1, I did away with SSO.
> 
> Bobby.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From: "Brooks, Jason" <brooksje at longwood.edu>
> Date: 2006/09/14 Thu PM 12:03:11 EDT
> To: <veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Cleaning Quandary
> 
>  Finally talked with support.  They're pointing that our 
> cleaning tapes don't have actual CLN*** labels.  Can anyone 
> support/deny this allegation?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> > [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of 
> > Brooks, Jason
> > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 10:26 AM
> > To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> > Subject: [Veritas-bu] Cleaning Quandary
> > 
> > Setup:
> > 
> >     1 NBU 6.0MP3 + eng binaries master, 1 NBU 6.0MP3 media
> >     Scalar i2K with 2 LTO3s, both shared to both servers
> > 
> > I came in this morning and found that the cleaning flag was 
> set by my 
> > ADIC on one of the drives.  I have 5 cleaning tapes in the library, 
> > and NBU knows them to live in the NONE pool with a media type of 
> > HC3_CLN.
> > When I tried to clean now, NBU responded with an error that 
> "request 
> > terminated, media not available (291)."  The Activity Monitor gave 
> > this:
> > 
> > 9/14/2006 9:01:06 AM - requesting resource Tape1:__ANY__
> > 9/14/2006 9:01:14 AM - Error nbjm(pid=800) NBU status: 96, 
> EMM status:
> > No media is available    
> > 9/14/2006 9:01:14 AM - end operation
> > unable to allocate new media for backup, storage unit has none
> > available(96)
> > 
> > I've opened a ticket with support, but nothing heard yet.  
> > I'm 1.5 hours from my scheduled disk staging relocation.  
> > Anyone seen this one before?
> > Ideas or suggestions?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Jason
> > 
> > ------------
> > Jason Brooks
> > Computer Systems Engineer
> > IITS - Longwood University
> > voice - (434) 395-2916
> > fax - (434) 395-2035
> > mailto:<brooksje at longwood.edu>
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