Jason,

Go to NetBackup Administration/Reports/Problems, and you may
find that you have a media error associated with a specific
tape.  We had an occurence of a bad tape DOWNing all ten DLT
tape drives in one L700 over the weekend.  :(  We had to
kill all backups, clear the tape drives, remove the bad tape
from the L700, did a tape inventory, rebooted the server to
clear rogue processes, and set all tape drives to the UP state.
We're back in business.

        Leo

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Ahrens [mailto:Jason.Ahrens AT telus DOT com]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 9:55 AM
To: Veritas BU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Drive downing (bptm?)


I had a drive go down on the weekend, this is the only reference I can find
to the drive going down:

in bpsched/log.112401
22:18:07 [2287] <4> set_drives_down: set drive <Drive1__STKLIB1> to down
state, bptm did not report drive

I tried to look at the bptm logs to find more information, but there was no
log created for the 24th, suggesting that bptm didn't have anything of note
to report. I looked through the messages and syslog file as well, with
nothing found about this drive downing.

So, why *did* this drive go down. Why didn't bptm report the drive?

Jason

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Jason Ahrens
Systems Administrator/Backup Specialist
PSINet Canada Inc., a TELUS company
http://www.psi.ca
The Future is Friendly

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