Hy Carter,
Thank's, but we're running our backup-environment on Sun Solaris (UNIX)
(but the tool is good 4 my PC @ home ;-)
Regards Thorsten Linow
UNIX SYS-Admin; Backup & Recovery
Talkline GmbH & CO KG
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>>> "Fowler, Carter" <CFowler AT london DOT ca> 20.07.04 14:54:16 >>>
There is a program called "process explorer" that you can obtain from
www.sysinternals.com and if you have a look for the nsrmmd.exe process,
it will show you in the details what tape drive it's using. We use
within our win2k environment to kill 'stuck' devices from time to time.
Hope this helps!
Cheers,
Carter Fowler
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-----Original Message-----
From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT listmail.temple DOT edu]
On Behalf Of Thorsten Linow
Sent: July 20, 2004 1:44 AM
To: NETWORKER AT listmail.temple DOT edu
Subject: Antw: RE: [Networker] verify label problem (NW7.1.2 & AS 2SR3)
Hi Chad,
Well that's exactly what I have. I was just wondering if there is an
easier way to
figure out the hanging nsrmmd.
Your experience with Alphastor sounds not so good, any comment?
Regards, Thorsten Linow
UNIX SYS-Admin; Backup & Recovery
Talkline GmbH & CO KG
See You @ www.talkline.de
>>> "Chad Smykay" <csmykay AT rackspace DOT com> 19.07.04 18:49:18 >>>
I used to see this issue all the time when we "used" to have AlphaSnor.
When it happened we just found the offending nsrmmd process and killed
it.
To find the offending nsrmmed process.....well that is another story.
Best
bet is to do an strace on all of the nsrmmd processes (if you are
running a
*nix) and kill any of the processes that are not doing anything. Nsrd
will
notice that they died off and automagically start them back up again.
Regards,
Chad Smykay, RHCE, LCNA
Systems Storage Administrator
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From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU]
On
Behalf Of Carl Farnsworth
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 10:01 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] verify label problem (NW7.1.2 & AS 2 SR3)
I wish I could read Hrvoje's response, but ...
1. I don't think you can use the -H option for a single drive.
2. Maybe Solaris behaves better than Windows, but it's been my
experience
(since 6.1.3) that a hung nsrjb process will block any successive nsrjb
commands. Try to find the "nsrjb -l ..." process that was trying to
mount
the volume and kill it.
3. In an AlphaStor environment, the "nsrjb -H" command doesn't actually
reset the jukebox, just tries to re-sync slot status with AlphaStor.
Use "nsrjb -HHv" to get NetWorker to realize that the drives have been
unloaded. Unfortunately, this will interrupt any other backups in
progress.
4. Stopping and re-starting NetWorker services may have the same
effect,
but you shouldn't have to delete and re-create the device.
HTH
cf
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 09:36:12 +0200, Thorsten Linow
<Linow.Thorsten AT TALKLINE DOT DE> wrote:
>Hi,
>We're running Networker 7.1.2 and Alphastor 3 SR2 together on on Sun
>V880
Server.
>Our STK9840 tapedrives are connected via SAN and controlled by ACSLS.
>The bunch of STK9840 Tapedrives are configuerd as
>smartmedia-jukebox_9840
in networker
>another bunch of STK9940B Tapedrives are configured as smartmedia-
jukebox9940 in Networker
>Now we have a logical 9840 drive in the networker GUI having the status
verify label.
>-The volume is clearly mounted in Alphastor and in ACSLS.
>-The status inside the networker GUI is verify label and a "mt -
f /dev/rmt/7cbn status " shows me a mounted tape.
>-The tape is not unloadable by networker.
>-asvolunmount will sucessfully unmount the alphastor and acsls device
>but
not the logical networker device.
>-Setting the drive into servicemode wouldn't help.
>-"mt -f /dev/rmt/7cbn release" or "mt -f /dev/rmt/7cbn offline wouldn't
clear the loaded slots, loaded barcode and loaded volume entries
> for the logical device inside the (smartmedia-)jukebox inside
> networker-
GUI.
>-deleting the enties in loaded slots, loaded barcodes and loaded
>volumes
for the coresponding logical drive inside the jukebox-configuration is
not
allowed anymore
> since NW7.1.2
>-"nsrjb -vvvH f drive98_40" takes houres without sucess.
>
>Any sugestions else than delete and create logical drive in networker
>or
restarting networker?
>
>Thank's in advance & kind Regards Thorsten Linow
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