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[Veritas-bu] ERROR 213

2002-04-02 09:27:22
Subject: [Veritas-bu] ERROR 213
From: Andrew Shinkarev <shinkara AT pprd.abbott DOT com> (Andrew Shinkarev)
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 08:27:22 -0600
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 11:15:12PM +1000, Marelas, Peter wrote:


If you got DLT then you might not feeding your tape drive well `

I've seen NetBackup reports header logical errors as non NetBackup header: 
18:19:38 [5794] <16> io_read_media_header: block read is not a NetBackup media 
header, len = 1024, med
ia id 002859, drive index 0, data is unknown


> It looks more like the header on the media has been
> overwritten. Netbackup reports logical
> errors as read/write errors which gives people the impression that
> the media is bad or the drive is bad (which in my experience
> is rarely the case) as opposed to the data on tape not being the
> size netbackup expects or structured as netbackup expects (i.e. media
> label in first block).
> 
> If you mount the tape using tpmount and dd the first block to
> a file and view that file you should be able to verify whether
> the header has been corrupted (overwritten with data).
> 
> Regards
> Peter Marelas
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Teklu [mailto:DanielT AT ilx DOT com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 2 April 2002 5:56 AM
> To: 'larry.kingery AT veritas DOT com'
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] ERROR 213
> 
> 
> Larry,
> 
> Yep..You are right..my drive was down..I brought it UP now..but I have
> another pbm..Error 85..did my drive go bad?..I cleaned it a couple of days
> ago.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> here is my bptm log:
> 
> 
> 
> 14:34:54 [27149] <2> vmdb_query_byID_getpool: server returned:  1 21
> NetBackup ANYHOST -1 -2 Main Pool
> 
> 14:34:54 [27149] <2> select_media: selected media id DG0002 for backup,
> backup1(rl = 1) <----------
> 14:34:54 [27149] <2> mount_open_media: Waiting for mount of media id DG0002
> on server backup1.
> 14:37:26 [27149] <2> io_open: file
> /usr/openv/netbackup/db/media/tpreq/DG0002 successfully opened
> 14:37:26 [27149] <2> write_backup: media id DG0002 mounted on drive index 0,
> drivepath /dev/rmt/0mbn, drivename
>  Drive0
> 14:37:26 [27149] <2> io_read_media_header: drive index 0, reading media
> header, buflen = 32768, buff = 0x3d5dc0
> 14:37:26 [27149] <2> io_ioctl: command (5)MTREW 1 from (bptm.c.4691) on
> drive index 0
> 14:38:48 [27149] <16> io_read_media_header: read error on media id DG0002,
> drive index 0, reading header block,
>  I/O error
> 14:38:48 [27149] <2> log_media_error: successfully wrote to error file -
> 04/01/02 14:38:48 DG0002 0 READ_ERROR
> 14:38:48 [27149] <2> check_error_history: called from bptm line 10939,
> EXIT_Status = 85
> 14:38:48 [27149] <2> check_error_history: drive index = 0, media id =
> DG0002, time = 04/01/02 14:38:48, both_ma
> tch = 0, media_match = 0, drive_match = 0
> 14:38:48 [27149] <2> io_close: closing
> /usr/openv/netbackup/db/media/tpreq/DG0002, from bptm.c.10202
> 14:38:48 [27149] <2> tpunmount: tpunmount'ing
> /usr/openv/netbackup/db/media/tpreq/DG0002
> 14:38:48 [27149] <2> bptm: EXITING with status 85 <----------
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Kingery [mailto:larry.kingery AT veritas DOT com]
> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 1:54 PM
> To: Daniel Teklu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] ERROR 213
> 
> 
> Have you restarted NBU after adding the storage units?
> 
> What do 
> 
>   tpconfig -l -d
> 
>   bpstulist -L
> 
> provide?
> 
> -- 
> Larry Kingery 
>          Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
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Andrew Shinkarev
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