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[Veritas-bu] Migrating Media Servers

2007-03-28 13:12:36
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Migrating Media Servers
From: brooksje at longwood.edu (Brooks, Jason)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:12:36 -0400
It's very strange indeed, seeing how the last write time, according to
nbemmcmd was almost 1 year ago.  And I can gaurantee that the server's
been rebooted several times since then.  Actually, it was rebooted
yesterday, so I'm not sure what would still be hung up.  I'll poke
around and see if I can find the files you mention.  Anyone know what
type/where they are?

Jason 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpiszcz at lucidpixels.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 11:59 AM
> To: Brooks, Jason
> Cc: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Migrating Media Servers
> 
> Very strange, if there is no JobID associated it with the job 
> activity monitor, try:
> 
> 1. Cycling services.
> 2. There are actually files where NetBackup keeps track of 
> tapes in the activity monitor, sometimes when things get 
> stuck you need to bp.kill_all and actually manually 
> move/remove them and start services back up.
> 
> Not sure if this will help you with your specific issue though.
> 
> Justin.
> 
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Brooks, Jason wrote:
> 
> > After Justin gave me the suggestion of altering the command line, I 
> > started getting somewhere.  But now I'm stuck again.  NBU 
> thinks these 
> > two tapes are in use.  The EMM knows about the tapes, and per that 
> > information, they can actually be reused.  I tried 
> bpexpdate on them, 
> > failed with this:
> >
> > requested media id is in use, cannot process request
> >
> > So, I started digging with google.  Came across a problem from the 
> > archives, posted by Richard Mansell, April 6, 2006.  He had tried 
> > similar things, and finally a bpmedialist -mcontents -m 000024 -L 
> > -host
> > media1 (mine).  Ran it, got the following in Activity Monitor:
> >
> > 3/28/2007 10:59:32 AM - awaiting resource 000024 Reason: 
> Media is in 
> > use., Media Server: N/A, Robot Number: 0, Robot Type: NONE, 
> Media ID:
> > 000024, Drive Name: N/A, Volume Pool: N/A, Storage Unit: N/A, Drive 
> > Scan
> > Host: N/A
> >
> > Robtest shows that there are no tapes in the drives.  Both 
> tapes show 
> > this behavior.  How can I make NBU think that there no 
> longer in use?
> >
> > BTW - these are not catalog tape but from my diff pool.
> >
> > Jason
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> >> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of 
> >> Brooks, Jason
> >> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 9:18 AM
> >> To: Justin Piszcz
> >> Cc: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> >> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Migrating Media Servers
> >>
> >> Well, that gave me more to work with.  Leaving off the old server 
> >> gave me the following error:
> >>
> >> "requested media id was not found in the EMM database"
> >>
> >> So, a little more digging.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Jason
> >>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> >>> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On
> >> Behalf Of Justin
> >>> Piszcz
> >>> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 9:05 AM
> >>> To: Brooks, Jason
> >>> Cc: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> >>> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Migrating Media Servers
> >>>
> >>> Wrong syntax?
> >>>
> >>> Try this:
> >>>
> >>> bpmedia -m 000024 -movedb -newserver new-media-server -oldserver 
> >>> old-server
> >>>
> >>> I do not believe the oldserver is needed, just including it
> >> for full
> >>> documentation purposes.
> >>>
> >>> Justin.
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Brooks, Jason wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I've been in the process of migrating a media server for
> >>> the past week
> >>>> or so.  I've used the guide in Appendix A of the NBU
> >> Media Manager
> >>>> System Administrator's Guide for Windows without any significant 
> >>>> problem.  However, I do have two recalcitrant tapes that won't 
> >>>> reassign to the new media server.  Here's what's happening:
> >>>>
> >>>> 1) Look for tapes assigned to the old server:
> >>>> D:\Program
> >>> Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\admincmd>bpmedialist.exe -mlist
> >>>> -l -h media1
> >>>> 000024 *NULL* 1 20 1141664428 1142876367 1205774540 0
> >> 113749351 102
> >>>> 102 10 4 0 0
> >>>> 1024 0 1777569 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> >>>> 000072 *NULL* 1 20 1142060157 1142879077 1205736395 0
> >>> 45324144 46 46
> >>>> 10
> >>>> 4 0 0 10
> >>>> 24 0 708298 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> >>>>
> >>>> Good.  Two tapes to move.
> >>>> 2) Try the move:
> >>>> D:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\admincmd>bpmedia
> >> -movedb -ev
> >>>> 000024 -oldserver media1 -newserver media2 invalid error number
> >>>>
> >>>> Same happens for tape 000072.  All other tapes relocated without 
> >>>> incident.  And I've checked to make sure these tapes
> >>> weren't frozen -
> >>>> they're active.
> >>>>
> >>>> Suggestions?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> Jason
> >>>>
> >>>> ------------
> >>>> Jason Brooks
> >>>> Computer Systems Engineer
> >>>> IITS - Longwood University
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> >>>> fax - (434) 395-2035
> >>>> mailto:<brooksje at longwood.edu>
> >>>>
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