Networker

Re: [Networker] NDMP backup fails after one drive is removed from jukebox

2004-09-20 13:56:36
Subject: Re: [Networker] NDMP backup fails after one drive is removed from jukebox
From: Stan Horwitz <stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 13:57:16 -0400
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Joel Krajden wrote:

>Solaris 9/Networker7.1; NetApp running 6.5.2R1, Qualstar 8464 with 4 LTO 
>drives.
>
>The Solaris 9/Networker7.1 server controls the jukebox robotics and two
>drives. Two drives in the jukebox are connected over SCSI to the NetApp.
>Backups for the NetApp are over NDMP.
>
>Last week one of the drives on the NetApp failed. The drive was removed and
>the entry in the jukebox for that drive was set to disabled. The entry for
>Networker for that drive was also set to disabled (taken out of service mode).
>
>Tried to do backups from the NetApp using the remaining drive but just got
>messages about terminating on signal 11 each time the remianing drive was
>accessed.

When you removed that tape drive, did you put a SCSI terminator on the
SCSI bus to make up for the missing tape drive? If not, that might
be the cause of your tape drive problem.

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