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[Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6

2007-01-10 12:31:23
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6
From: Michael.Sponsler at ngc.com (Sponsler, Michael)
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:31:23 -0500
I can't open the doors to the PX510 without taking the drive itself it
offline.  There is no mail slot in the PX510.  There are load ports, but
again, I have to open the door of the PX510 to access the load ports,
and the PX510 itself will not open the doors while the PX510 itself is
on-line.  The on-line / off-line of the PX510 is different than the
on-line / off-line status of the drives in Netbackup.
 
--
Mike Sponsler
Northrop Grumman
Michael.Sponsler at ngc.com
 

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From: Curtis Preston [mailto:cpreston at glasshouse.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:02 PM
To: Sponsler, Michael; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6



Patient: Doctor my arms hurts when I move it like this.  

Doctor: Don't move it like that.

 

Seriously, why not use NBU's ability to move tapes in and out of the
library without having to take it offline?

 

---

W. Curtis Preston

Author of O'Reilly's Backup & Recovery and Using SANs and NAS

VP Data Protection

GlassHouse Technologies

 

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From: netbackup-bounces at backupcentral.com
[mailto:netbackup-bounces at backupcentral.com] On Behalf Of Sponsler,
Michael
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 8:07 AM
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6

 

All, 
I've got an odd problem with my PX510 and my Solaris 10, Netbackup 6.0
MP2 master server.  The PX510 is connected to a fibre san switch, and my
Solaris 10 Netbackup 6 master server is connected into the san switch as
well.  When the PX510 is taken off-line (say to add new tapes, remove
old tapes, inventory the tape library at the PX510), then taken back
on-line, I can't see the PX510 from my Solaris 10 master server.  If I
run sgscan from the Solaris 10 box, I can't see the the jukebox until
the Solaris 10 box is reset.  

The odd thing is, is that the PX510 is used for Shared Storage.  I've
got a Linux box (SLES 9) running Netbackup 6 MP2 connected to the fibre
san switch as well.  The Linux box can see it by running
/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/scan before and after the PX510 goes offline then
online.  I can't keep rebooting my Solaris 10 master server every time I
add or remove tapes from it.  I've tried modunload and modload on the sg
and st modules in solaris.  Has anyone had anything similar to this
occur to them?  If so did you find a work around?  Or if you've got any
general ideas, please share.

-- 
Mike Sponsler 
Northrop Grumman 
Michael.Sponsler at ngc.com 

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