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Re: [Networker] Changing status of a tape device
2007-07-03 10:44:54
On Jul 3, 2007, at 10:24 AM, Davina Treiber wrote:
Stan Horwitz wrote:
In NetWorker 7.2.1 on Solaris 9, can anyone think of any tricks to
change the status of a tape drive from idle to done without
rebooting the NetWorker server or restarting the NetWorker server
software.
You should be able to do this by killing the nsrmmd processes. Be
careful not to kill nsrmmdbd.
I tried that by using fuser to see which process is accessing the
relevant device file, then "kill -9" that process. No other process
replaces the killed one when I check fuser again and the device
remains in the idle status. I also tried going into nwadmin,
selecting the particular device resource, then setting the minor mode
to "done" but that has no effect either. I really need to free up
four devices that seem to be "stuck" but I can't reboot or restart
the nsr processes because we are doing some other backups and right
in the middle of a DR audit that requires a lot of data to be
recovered from tape, so I don't want to interrupt that activity.
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