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Re: [Veritas-bu] Log that tracks tape assignments?

2007-11-19 15:23:22
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Log that tracks tape assignments?
From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
To: A Darren Dunham <ddunham AT taos DOT com>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:59:42 -0500 (EST)
Any chance a drive went bad or it froze a lot of tapes? That could be one 
reason.

On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, A Darren Dunham wrote:

> I have a little script that prints the total number of assigned media on
> my master server to a file every hour.  It lets me track overall usage.
>
> But I'm seeing a spike that I can't understand, and I'm wondering if
> there is a log file that will give me more information.
>
> Specifally, it tells me that on Friday the number of assigned volumes I
> have went up by 9 in just a few hours and another 10 over the rest of
> the weekend.  Even if no tapes were deassigned in that period, it
> suggests that the system should have assigned a minimum of 19 new tapes.
>
> Problems is, I can't tell which ones they are.  If I view my volumes and
> sort by 'assigned date', , I see only 11 volumes have an assigned date
> of Friday afternoon or later....
>
> Is there a log that would track which volumes are getting assigned?
> Using 19 LTO3 tapes is unusual for the schedules run last weekend.  I'm
> having trouble reconciling where all those scratch tapes went.
>
> Thanks for any help.  My master is NBU 6.0MP4 running on Linux.
> -- 
> Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT 
> com
> Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
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