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Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore does not mount tape and fails witherror(5)

2008-07-25 06:23:06
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore does not mount tape and fails witherror(5)
From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
To: "Sumeeth Singh (S)" <SinghS23 AT telkom.co DOT za>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:03:50 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Sumeeth Singh (S) wrote:

>
> Are your drives up?  tpconfig -dl on the media server
> All drives are UP
>
> Are they working properly?  vmoprcmd -d ds on the media server
> All working properly
>
>
> Are the tapes ok? Tapes are fine
> bpmedialist shows them? yes
>
> What do the logs say? The failed restores are not generating any logs,
> which ones should I be looking at in particular.
>
> I have also cleared all scsi reserves on the drives (vmoprcmd
> -crawlreleasebyname)
>

Has a restore ever worked properly?  Are you restoring it to the host that 
you backed it up from or a different host?  How long did you wait for it 
to restore?  Have you tried restoring a single file instead of a large 
dataset to see if that helps?

Justin.
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