Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] Problem with restoring files

2001-07-18 17:38:24
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Problem with restoring files
From: bob.bakh AT home DOT com (Bob Bakh)
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 14:38:24 -0700
Odd is the line

tape-config-list uncommented as well, just grasping at a straw here but want
to make sure.

Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel D Cohen" <JCohen AT cyberdialogue DOT com>
To: <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Problem with restoring files


>
> 1. The backups are of oracle dump files, not live database files. I'm not
> using any extensions currently, but we have
> the Oracle extension. Never got to setting it up correctly since we
> couldn't find proper documentation on how to get
> it all working. I want to be able to do BLIBs.
>
> 2. No ner kernel patches were installed recently. My st.conf file looks
has
> these 2 lines for the AIT drives:
>
> "SONY    SDX-500C", "Sony AIT", "SONY_AIT";
> SONY_AIT        =       1,0x34,0,0x3d639,1,0x30,0;
>
>
> Joel Cohen
> Client Infrastructure Manager
> Cyber Dialogue
>
>
>
>                     "Bob Bakh"
>                     <bob.bakh@hom        To:
<veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>, "Joel D Cohen"
<JCohen AT cyberdialogue DOT com>
>                     e.com>               cc:
>                                          Subject:     Re: [Veritas-bu]
Problem with restoring files
>                     07/18/2001
>                     03:23 PM
>

>
>
>
>
>
> Two questions
>
> 1 what are the backups of, Oracle, File system, or NetApp, and if so did
> you
> use an extension, like RMAN or NDMP?
>
> 2.  Check your st.conf /kernel/drv/st.conf and confirm that it has not
> changed in recent times.  Also have you installed any jumbo kernel patches
> for Solaris lately.
>
> Bob
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joel D Cohen" <JCohen AT cyberdialogue DOT com>
> To: <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 11:45 AM
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Problem with restoring files
>
>
> > Hi List,
> >
> > I'm running 3.4 on Solaris 2.6 with a SpectraLogic 10000 with 4 AIT-2
> > drives. My backups run fine, but when I try
> > to restore a file, I'm getting one of two things.
> >
> > 1. Trying to restore yields an error that says "media manager detected
> that
> > the tape is not in tar format" and the
> > restore fails.
> >
> > 2. Trying to restore just exits with the message "failed to recover
> > <filename>."
> >
> > This is not localized to a single tape or a single drive. I've tried all
> 4
> > drives and tried restoring from a few different
> > tapes as well. Has anyone else seen this behavior? I ran a few test tars
> > and things seemed fine. I've opened a case
> > with Veritas on this and the tech said that he'd never seen this before
> and
> > that my media might be bad. I am able to
> > restore from the tape by directly using gnu tar, so I'm pretty sure that
> my
> > tapes are not bad.
> >
> > Thanks for any help you can give.
> >
> > Joel Cohen
> > Client Infrastructure Manager
> > Cyber Dialogue
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Veritas-bu maillist  -  Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
> >
>
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Veritas-bu maillist  -  Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu