Not sure why it does this, maybe an error in the robot unmount
proceedure?  I had a problem with a bad robot controller card (card in
the robot, not scsi in my server) that was causing it to randomly down
drives as bad even though the drives were fine.

I modified a script a little from David Champa who has some
great stuff up at http://www.xbpadm-commands.com.  Cron runs it every 10
mins and checks the drive status.  If the drive was was down it'd send a
"here's what our statis is before I try to fix it and what it looks like
after I tried" and would email it to me.  Works great.

Robert



Thus spake Larry Chin (casslin AT sympatico DOT ca):

> Software: Veritas Netbackup Business server
> Hardware: Sun E450/Solaris 8/Quantum 80000 DLT/Sun Storedge L9 Robotic
> unit
> 
> problem: after every backup, full or differential the tape device status
> goes from up to down and as a resul the next scheduled backup does not
> run.
> 
> Has anyone else run into a problem like this and/or do you have any
> insight as to why this is happening and a possible solution ?
> 
> Any help/suggestions are appreciated. I will summarize.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Larry Chin
> 
> 
> 
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