Ok. Lets say the tapes are offsite. I need to know which tapes to bring back
to minimize the cost. How can I find the list to request before hand?
-----Original Message-----
From: Lou Costabile [mailto:luis AT bellglobal DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 3:39 PM
To: Jason Ahrens [ahrensj AT psi DOT ca]
Cc: 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] up'ing a drive
I've always done restores either from the command line tool bprestore or
the menu tool bpadm. The progress log file specifies which tapes will
be required, so just tail -f <your_progress_logfile>.
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Jason Ahrens [ahrensj AT psi DOT ca] wrote:
> I was also told (by this list) the only way to find out what tapes are
> required for a restore it to start it, let it fail or kill it, find out
what
> tapes were requested, and then restart it. If this is not the proper way,
> how is it supposed to be done? The documentation I have does not say
> anything about this topic.
>
> Jason
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David A. Chapa [mailto:david AT datastaff DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 3:21 PM
> To: Veritas-bu List
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] up'ing a drive
>
>
> This isn't the first time I have heard this exact
> question. I've been hearing this a lot lately,
> especially teaching the NetBackup Classes...about
> having to stop the Media Manager daemons.
>
> Does anyone know where it came from?
>
> I've also heard people say that they have been "told"
> that in order to do a restore of a tape that's not
> currently in the Tape Library, they have to KILL the
> restore job (after they start it to find out what tape
> is required), find the tape and put it in the tape
> library, then RESTART the restore job...now I know
> that's not true ;-)
>
> just curious...thanks
>
> David
>
>
> Quoting "Arsenault, Donald (FUSA)"
> <DonaldArsenault AT firstusa DOT com>:
>
> > use:
> > vmoprcmd -h <volume_database_host> -upbyname
> <drive_name>
> >
> > This does not require stopping the Media manager.
> >
> > Donald J. Arsenault
> > First USA Bank, NA
> > 201 North Walnut St.
> > Wilmington, DE 19801
> > Ph. (302)434-7626
> > Fax (302)594-4020
> > MS DE1-1231
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeff Kennedy [mailto:jlkennedy AT amcc DOT com]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 2:10 PM
> > To: Veritas-bu List
> > Subject: [Veritas-bu] up'ing a drive
> >
> >
> > Is there a way to up a drive without restarting the
> media manager
> > daemons? I had a drive drop on me and couldn't
> restart the backup for
> > that client because other backups were in progress
> and I couldn't shut
> > down the MM daemons to up it. I am running NBU 3.4
> on Solaris 7.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > --
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