Il Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 01:32:58PM +0100, François-Xavier Peretmere ha scritto:
> > From: Giuseppe Sacco [mailto:eppesuigoccas AT iol DOT it]
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 11:36 AM
> 
> > I recently got an error 219. The NetBackup is a 3.4 and it was working
> > like a charm until some days ago.
> 
>  If it use to work and is not anymore, then my first question
> is "what has change between ?"  ;-)

Nothing, of course. When the morning mail about backup status said then
something went wrong, we get to the L9 and we found that it was blocked
reading the barcode of a tape.

>  Not. bplabel should run for a couple of minutes maximum. Seem
> like there's a problem in the data path between your host and the
> tape drive.
>  It the tape reachable with basic commands (mt, tar, cpio...) ?

I will try this.

>  Robotic path seems ok. robtest should work. But is the data path
> from the host to the robot the same than the one to the tape drives ?

I will try robtest also. I will read the related documentation.

> > The only problem is that when a backup start (at its scheduled time)
> > then it switch to state 'done' with error 219.
> 
>  Are the drive UP (vmoprcmd) ? if yes, are the drives defined with
> the correct density ?

Who/what should have changed the definiton? :-|

>  Hth.

Thank you very much for your help, when I will have some answer I will
let the list know.

Giuseppe