Re: [Networker] Changing status of a tape device

In case of killing the nsrmmd does not work, there is no alternative, You have 
to restart the networker application or -even worse- reboot the networker 
server. 
If truss and fuser gives no associated processes to investigate on, there is no 
other way.

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Auftrag von Stan Horwitz
Gesendet: Dienstag, 3. Juli 2007 16:35
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Betreff: Re: [Networker] Changing status of a tape device

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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