Hi BC
Yes, that's the reason. In NetBackup 5.1 (and before) the status of the tape
(Active, Frozen, Suspended, Full, ...) is saved in the media catalog that is
located on the media server. Try
bpmedialist -m xxxxxx -h yyyyyy
(replace xxxxx with the media id, yyyyyy with the media server that has
frozen the tape and you shold see the frozen status.
Cheers
Ueli Schweizer
AGITE Software AG . Boesch 43 . CH-6331 Huenenberg . Switzerland
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-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
bobcole at cfl.rr.com
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 4:22 PM
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Tape Froze but found Unfrozen
All,
I feel like I have a ghost in my machine. A vault job ran and mounted a
tape which took enough I/O errors to be frozen. I could see in bptm
where it was frozen. The vault job runs thru an alternate media server,
not the server that owns the tape.
I displayed the tape with bpmedialist and found it not to be frozen the
next morning.
None of the admins will admit to unfreezing it. I've never seen NBU
freeze a tape and then unfreeze it. Is this because the server that
attempted to freeze it is not the media server that owns the tape?
BC
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