Yes, I can confirm that I've seen that fairly frequently too, but I don't have
a repeatability case so I haven't done much in the way of scientific testing to
track it down.
In loose terms, one or both of the host or the tape drive, though logged into
the fabric, no longer appear to be so from the DF's point of view. Some times
power-cycling the drive or generating LIP from the host side (devfsadm for
Solaris, ioscan -fn for HP-UX, so forth) or both clears things up, some times
it's necessary to reboot the DF entirely, and I believe I can recall one
occasion on which it was actually necessary to remove and recreate the
"cryptainer" (which isn't a big pain for me because we use the same key for all
tape media, but I can see it being a bit of a drag). If you choose to tinker
around with this without just bouncing the DF, I recommend checking the status
on the DF side with the CLI rather than the web GUI, whose graphical mapping is
a nice idea except that it bears precious little semblance to reality, in my
experience.
Sorry I can't offer you much more than that (especially you, Steve, since I
presume this is for a customer who's insisting on the DF)... my solution is to
switch to LTO-4 and drop the middle-man on the encryption (which just means I
get to start getting angry about the failure of standardization in the key
management space, but that's a whole separate rant).
--
Gabriel Rosenkoetter
Radian Group Inc, Senior Systems Engineer
gabriel.rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz, 215 231 1556
-----Original Message-----
From: Heathe Kyle Yeakley [mailto:hkyeakley AT gmail DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 4:03 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Decru Dataforts
OMG Yes! We got a datafort about a year ago and about every other week I
get into work and all my jobs are hung. It's like my master server just
forgets where the drives are.
If anyone has a solution, I'd love to hear it. I'm still trying to
figure it out.
Hudson, Steve wrote:
>
> For those of you out there that have Decru Dataforts has anyone seen
> an issue where the O/S ( Sun, HP/UX and Linux) loses sight to tape
> drives and only a reboot of the Decru Datafort solves the problem??
>
> We have been seeing this quite a bit lately and I was wondering if
> anyone else is having this issue ? Thanks.....
>
>
> Steve Hudson
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