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[Veritas-bu] Vault 4.5MP3 problems with volume groups

2003-05-01 13:10:44
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Vault 4.5MP3 problems with volume groups
From: WTSmith AT maine DOT edu (Wayne T. Smith)
Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 13:10:44 -0400
The xml file looks fine.  Since I'm taking down NB to install MP4, maybe 
that will help.  There certainly are sessions and reports directories 
with the old stuff.   Thanks for the reply, wayne

Rob Worman wrote:
> are you sure there's no reference to that old test group in your vault 
> config?
> 
> (grep <oldgroup> /usr/openv/netbackup/db/vault/vault.xml)
> 
> there's no caching that goes on that I know of...
> 
>> Background: I'm just configuring VAULT 4.5MP3.  I started with several 
>> vaults and more profiles and backed up some data.  Then I bpexpdate'd 
>> those duplication and catalog tapes and discarded the vault 
>> configuration (from the GUI).  I didn't understand how VAULT was to 
>> use volume groups.  Then I had a test vault, with test volume groups 
>> and volume pools. It seemed to work OK. Then I copied that vault and 
>> profile to a new vault and profile and proceeded to change all of the 
>> names (volume pools and groups) and other config for use in 
>> "production" (again using GUI).
>>
>> On the new "to-be-production" vault, the duplications are going OK. 
>> Tapes are selected from the appropriate group/pool and changed to my 
>> new "dup" volume pool.  Catalog backups fail with no media available. 
>> When I look in the logs, vault is looking for tapes in my old test 
>> group, not the new, currently defined group.  If I put tapes in the 
>> old test cat group, the catalog backups run fine. Finally, During the 
>> eject/report stages, vault finds the catalog tapes to backup, but does 
>> not find the duplication tapes. The logs show it is looking at the old 
>> test group for dups instead of the currently defined volume group.
>>
>> Anyone seen anything like this or have a way "out"?  I guess that I'll 
>> have to throw away all my current dup's, delete the configuration, go 
>> in and delete any files left around, and hope that I find everything 
>> (but don't remove anything vital to NBU/DC & VAULT.   Suggestions?



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