This command will probably show that the media is not in the db
nbemmcmd -listmedia -mediaid K00443

If the media is not in the db you can add it to the db with the
following command.  Change -den hcart to your choice of media type.
bptm -makedbentry -m K00443 -den hcart -poolnum 1


Doug Preston




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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Boris
Kraizman
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:25 PM
To: JAJA (Jamie Jamison)
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO2 restore problem on LTO4 tape drive

Hi Jamie,

Read this:

LTO-4 can read/write LTO-3 tapes but can only read LTO-2 tapes. It
cannot read LTO-1 tapes


On Feb 20, 2008 2:16 PM, JAJA (Jamie Jamison) <jamisonj AT zgi DOT com> wrote:


        I'm having problems restoring a cumulative incremental standard
policy backup stored on an LTO2 tape on an LTO4 drive. The density
settings for the LTO2 tapes on my system is HCART, for LTO4 it's HCART3.
I've run restores where I've set one of the LTO4 drives as density HCART
in the device manager, restarted LTID and then created a storage unit
for the LTO4 drive with the HCART density setting. I've also been able
to run restores by setting the write protect tab on the LTO2 tape and
then using vmchange to change the density to HCART3.
         
        I've been trying to restore from two tapes from a backup in
November and I keep getting messages like this in the status window.
         
        2/19/2008 12:59:46 PM - begin Restore
        2/19/2008 12:59:48 PM - 1 images required
        2/19/2008 12:59:48 PM - media K00443 required
        2/19/2008 12:59:52 PM - restoring image spike.zgi.com_1195784616
        2/19/2008 12:59:54 PM - connecting
        2/19/2008 12:59:56 PM - connected; connect time: 00:00:02
        2/19/2008 12:59:56 PM - requesting resource K00443
        2/19/2008 12:59:56 PM - granted resource K00443
        2/19/2008 12:59:56 PM - granted resource rmt-3cbn
        2/19/2008 12:59:58 PM - Warning bptm(pid=546) media id K00443
not found in Media Manager, mount request will most likely occur
        2/19/2008 12:59:58 PM - started process bptm (546)
        2/19/2008 12:59:58 PM - mounting K00443
         
        I don't know why I'm getting the "media id not found in media
manager" error. The tape shows up if you do a bpmedialist or a vmquery.
What I see is that the tape loads into the proper drive, does nothing
for a while and then then NetBackup says that it is done with the tape
(in this case K00443) and needs to load the next tape, which it
identifies as K00443 (this is a one tape restore, I'm only interested in
restoring the cumulative incremental backups from two days) and downs
the tape drive. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to deal with
this?
         
        Thanks,
         
        Jamie Jamison

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