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