Re: [Networker] Recover after Retirement - Volumes Leaving Media DB

Are you using fiber or scsi?
Is it direct attached or SAN attached?
If SAN attached check the HBA subscriptions.
We had a similar problem where as we over subscribed out HBA to 3 drives as
a result only RMAN recoveries are not working. When we lowered the HBA
subscription to 2 drives per HBA everything is fine.

-Venkat


On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Fazil Saiyed <Fazil.Saiyed AT anixter DOT com>
wrote:

> Hi,
> Can you share the experience of switching from networker to Netbackup and
> any issues, likes\dislikes,when you have time.
> On the restore
> Have you tried removing the tape out of the dB via nsrim -d " volumename"
> and\or deleting the saveset in the same manner, followed by mounting and
> running scanner -i briefly to reintroduce the tape in the media dB?
> Has any thing changed since you shut down networker, i.,e Tape Li b
> config, barcode reader config etc ?
> HTH
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> Randy Doering <rdoering2 AT VERIZON DOT NET>
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> Hello, a month or so ago, we retired Networker and switched to Netbackup -
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> not my decision, we are a merger of 2 organizations.
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> Well, for the last Networker backups of the various file system
> (include /home on an EMC Celerra, NDMP), I increased browse/retentions to
> a year, and stored the tapes in a secure place.
>
> Of course, a couple of days ago a user requested a restore of some data
> that he had not migrated over to the new /home (NetApp).
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> I had previously completed a restore of a users home area, by shutting
> down Netbackup and bringing Networker back online, browsing for the
> necessary tapes, loading them in, and the restore was fine.
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> This time, Networker sees the tapes loaded, online via nsrjb, after nsrjb
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> I -S. Now when I kicked off the restore it says it needs tape 000068, and
> tape 000068 is loaded in the LTO3 drive. But Networker continues to
> request for this tape to be loaded until it times out with the following
> in the daemon.log file:
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> 04/24/08 13:16:16 nsrd: Operation 2 started : Load volume `000068'.
> 04/24/08 13:16:16 nsrd: media waiting event: waiting for LTO Ultrium-3
> tape 000068 on a11ns01
> 04/24/08 13:25:49 nsrd: [Jukebox `nsr_juke', operation # 2]. Expected
> volume `000068' in slot `8'. The actual volume is `<NULL>'.
> 04/24/08 13:31:16 nsrd: media critical event: waiting for LTO Ultrium-3
> tape 000068 on a11ns01
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> So, tape 000068 is in the media DB, then falls out. mminfo -ar "volume,
> location" shows it in, but then following it up after the tape is loaded,
> the same command doesn't show the location.
>
> Long shot, I'm sure.
>
> I've done both sjimm command to move the tape in the slot, followed by
> nsrjb -I -S, and also the Deposit command from NMC.
>
> Thanks,
> Randy
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