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Re: [Veritas-bu] What happened to NO_STANDALONE_UNLOAD / ltid -nsu?

2008-08-15 17:10:37
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] What happened to NO_STANDALONE_UNLOAD / ltid -nsu?
From: "Rosenkoetter, Gabriel" <Gabriel.Rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz>
To: "Tim Hoke" <thoke AT northpeak DOT org>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:53:01 -0400
This setting, in fact, can't be in vm.conf (but maybe the upgrade process scans for known touch files? I dont' recall), and the other way to do it was to alter the netbackup RC startup script (to pass the -nsu flag to ltid) which also no longer works. In any case, if it's possible to scan for vm.conf settings and touchfiles once, there's really no excuse not to do so when EMM starts up on a master server: again, rule of least surprise.

--
gabriel rosenkoetter
Radian Group Inc, Unix/Linux/VMware Sysadmin / Backup & Recovery
gabriel.rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz, 215 231 1556

 


From: Tim Hoke [mailto:thoke AT northpeak DOT org]
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 4:47 PM
To: Rosenkoetter, Gabriel
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] What happened to NO_STANDALONE_UNLOAD / ltid -nsu?

Keep in mind that most settings like this could have been in vm.conf.  If they were, then during upgrade nbpushdata adds them to emm automatically.

-Tim

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Rosenkoetter, Gabriel <Gabriel.Rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz> wrote:
Aha.

nbemmcmd -changesetting -DO_NOT_EJECT_STANDALONE 1 -machinename
<whatever>


Because it makes sense for EMM to fail to get its initial settings from
the touchfiles everybody's already used to, of course, and to do
everything through a new management interface.

Don't get me wrong, it IS nice not to have to bounce daemons in order to
put these things into effect, but it sure seems like a lot of the EMM
changes violate the law of least surprise...


--
gabriel rosenkoetter
Radian Group Inc, Unix/Linux/VMware Sysadmin / Backup & Recovery
gabriel.rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz, 215 231 1556


-----Original Message-----
From: Rosenkoetter, Gabriel
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 4:24 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: What happened to NO_STANDALONE_UNLOAD / ltid -nsu?

http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/193080.htm certainly doesn't
mention anything later than NetBackup 4.5 FP2... and neither method
listed there works under 6.5.2.

I don't think I've ever really cared before, but now that I'm playing
with LTO-4 drive encryption on a standalone drive it's REALLY
infuriating to have to go push the tape in every time a label, write to,
or read from a tape. (I guess I might care in a DR test too, come to
think of it.)

Is it still possible to do this through some other knob or switch
somewhere?

--
gabriel rosenkoetter
Radian Group Inc, Unix/Linux/VMware Sysadmin / Backup & Recovery
gabriel.rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz, 215 231 1556



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