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Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange problem after changing storage unit.

2009-03-05 09:42:58
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange problem after changing storage unit.
From: Dave Markham <dave.markham AT fjserv DOT net>
To: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:06:28 +0000
Dude i totally didn't read to the bottom of your email.

Thats exactly what has happened. Its now working.

Fantastic.  What a star.

How would i have found that out? Dear me.

Cheers


Justin Piszcz wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Dave Markham wrote:
>
>   
>> Netbackup 5.0MP7 running on Solaris with SL24
>>
>> Guys i got a bit of weird issue i wondered if anyone could shed some
>> light on.
>>
>> A customer is changing from an L1000 to an SL24, but wants to have the
>> L1000 configured also for historic restores until they expire.
>>
>> In a test bed on same server hardware (e220r) i have built a fresh OS
>> using Sol9 09/05 (needed mpt driver for new Ultra320 HBA installed),
>> cabled up the SL24 with 2 x LTO3 drives in it.
>>
>> - I installed NBU and patched to MP7 as the existing install is.
>> - Then got the catalogues over  and did a bprecover -r -dpath <path to cats>
>> - This recovered everything including the old L1000 storage unit.
>> - I removed the robot and drives using tpconfig, vmadm.
>> - I then configured the new SL24 unit and did an inventory on which
>> brought in the new LTO3 tapes and put them as scratch (as by barcode
>> rules said to do).
>> - I can see all my old media in volume group ---  and all my new media
>> in 00_000_TLD
>> - I have left the L1000 storage unit configured in NBU as i want to
>> connect it later, where i will add using correct path etc.
>> - I have changed policies to use the SL24 storage unit
>>
>> Now the problem is when i try and run a backup it is failing with status
>> 96 no media available. I can't understand why as i have new media in
>> which is scratch.
>>
>> Anyone any ideas? Do i need to remove the L1000 storage unit completely?
>> Is something hidden somewhere i need to change?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
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>
> 1. So you took the tapes from the L1000 and put them into an SL24?
> 2. I am assuming the media servers did not change?
> 3. Did the drve tapes stay the same?
> 4. Did you inventory the library and make sure the media is scratch?
> 5. Is the barcode reader in the new robot inventorying the tapes the same
>     way as the old one?
>
> --
>
> Wait, I know, at least in NetBackup 5.1x, you've hit the catalog restore bug!
> The bug is this: After you recover the catalog it de-activates your scratch
> pool!
>
> Right click the Scratch volume pool, and select [x] Enable/Scratch Pool!
>
> This got me a few times as well :)
>
> Justin.
>
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