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[Veritas-bu] Weird behavior with Catalog Backup

2004-10-20 15:35:41
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Weird behavior with Catalog Backup
From: juanino AT yahoo DOT com (Jerry)
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:35:41 -0700 (PDT)
Yes. You should be able to do that. Move the suspect
tape into a Pool "suspect tapes" or something like.

--- "Lewick, Taylor" <tlewick AT hrblock DOT com> wrote:

> Right, was confused because I was trying to delete
> the entry from that
> part of the GUI.  I just change it to another tape,
> and manually delete
> that tape using command line if I think there is a
> physical problem with
> the tape correct?
> 
> -----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 W. T.
> Smith
> Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 10:27 AM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Weird behavior with
> Catalog Backup
> 
> Not so weird ;-)
> 
> Configured "by the book", your automatic catalog
> backups alternate
> between two tapes (or a disk and tape).
> 
> One way to view/set your configuration is to start
> the "Configure the
> Catalog Backup" wizard on the "NetBackup Management"
> page of the GUI.
> 
> By the way, a catalog backup to tape starts writing
> at the beginning of
> tape media, overwriting any previous catalog backup
> on that tape.
> 
> So, NetBackup is trying to use tape DB0007 because
> that is what was
> configured.  Media Manager doesn't have the tape, so
> constructs a
> Pending Mount, which apparently/eventually times
> out.  To use a
> different tape, run the wizard or use the command
> line interface.  
> 
> cheers, wayne
> 
> Lewick, Taylor wrote:
> > Hi all.  Haven't seen this one before...
> > 
> > We noticed recently that several of our Catalog
> Backups had been
> failing
> > with status 52.  "time out waiting for media
> manager to mount volume".
> > We then noticed that half of the Catalog backups
> were failing, and it
> > was always with the same media, DB0007.  So I had
> an operator eject
> > DB0007 and mark it as offsite via the GUI.  I
> wanted to examine the
> > tape, see if it was damaged since it could never
> be loaded.
> > 
> > Well this morning the Catalog backup runs, and its
> now trying to mount
> > DB0007.  Any idea why it is trying to mount a tape
> that is out of the
> > library and is marked as being offsite?
> > 
> > Is the default behavior to keep using the same
> tape for a catalog
> backup
> > until it is filled up?  If so, short of deleting
> this tape, how can I
> > tell NetBackup to not use this piece of media for
> a catalog backup?
> > Remove it from the volume pool?
> > 
> > Any response is appreciated.
> > Thanks,
> > Taylor 
> > 
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