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[Veritas-bu] Novell client setup issues....

2004-02-13 14:19:20
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Novell client setup issues....
From: shenglin AT umd.umich DOT edu (sheng-ling coady)
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 14:19:20 -0500
if it's Veritas 4.5, was pmthread.nlm installed and loaded?


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>    3. Novell client setup issues.... (Christopher Jay Manders)
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> From: "Patrick Whelan" <consultant0610 AT hotmail DOT com>
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 17:31:25 +0000
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Special characters in Windows file/directory names
> 
> All,
> 
> I'm sure I have seen this before, but I can not find it in the archives or 
> on Veritas' web site. DOes anyone know of a problem/fix for special 
> characters (i.e. $) in file or directory names when trying to do a restore. 
> It appears that the files did not get backed up. Am I barking up the wrong 
> tree. This is NBU 3.4 Solaris master, AIX media server, W2k client.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
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> Patrick Whelan
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> Message: 2
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] device mapping problem?
> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 09:37:10 -0800
> From: "Corbett, Nancy" <nancy.corbett AT attws DOT com>
> To: "Thoma, Scott" <sthoma AT verisign DOT com>, <veritas-bu AT 
> mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
> 
> I don't think it's a drive mapping problem.  I'm assuming that AA0448
> AA0449 LI0407, etc...are tape IDs or bar code labels?
> 
> If that's so, then the problem is that the internal header on the tape
> was written with a different bar code label than the one that's actually
> on the tape.  Have you relabeled tapes recently?
> 
> If I'm correct about this, you can fix it by overwriting the tape
> header.  
> 
> dd if=/etc/hosts of=/dev/rmt/0cbn (or whatever the device path is)
> 
> This will overwrite the tape header with the /etc/hosts file.
> 
> Nancy
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Thoma,
> Scott
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 7:54 AM
> To: 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] device mapping problem?
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> 
> Hey there All, 
> 
> I'm a bit boggled by what I'm seeing when I look at the devices section
> on my admin console.  This is what I see:
> 
> Drive Name    Type    Control         Recorded Media ID       External
> Media ID
> ----------------      ------- -----------
> ---------------------------   --------------------------
> drv0          HCART   ACS             AA0449                  AA0488
> drv1          HCART   ACS             LI0407                  AA0449
> 
> 
> (there are 6 other drives but these are the two that seem to be crossed
> somehow...)
> 
> 
> Now when I look via ACSLS, it appears that the External Media IDs are
> the correct ID's corresponding to the tapes actually in those
> drives....also as far as I can tell the device mappings are correct.  We
> are running NB4.5_fp6
> on AIX.   I suppose that I could take another crack at remapping all the
> devices again but I've done it three times already with the same
> results. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> thanks, 
> 
> Scott Thoma
> Senior Systems Administrator
> Technical Operations
> Verisign 
> sthoma AT verisign DOT com
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 09:47:17 -0800
> From: Christopher Jay Manders <CJManders AT LBL DOT GOV>
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Novell client setup issues....
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Has anyone set up Novell clients?
> 
> We are having issues getting it to work. We followed the manual for 
> Novell but it still fails.
> 
> - We added access for our servers to the SYS:\ETC\HOSTS file.
> - Where we got a 59 error before (after following what the manual said), 
> now we are getting a 71, which would indicate some communication, though 
> it still can't be bpdir'ed.
> - "telnetting" to the bpcd port is successful. 
> 
> Would logs, bp.ini, /etc/hosts, etc. files be useful?
> 
> Any help appreciated.
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Chris
> 
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