Roed, as you've been told several times, the media is being detected as DLT in
your SL500 environment because you have a barcode rule (or the lack of one and
a default set to DLT) in that environment that is telling NetBackup to do that.
You need to add or modify a barcode rule that tells NetBackup to do the right
thing with your barcodes. Since you haven't told us what barcodes are on your
LTO-4 media (which will be six digits plus an L4, unless you've configured your
library not to pass those final two digits through, and I don't recall whether
you can configure an SL500 that way), nor what extant barcode rules you have,
we can't be more specific than that. You should consult the appropriate system
administrator's guide for your OS, volume 1, which you can find at
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/290282.htm, for details on how to
configure barcode rules: I won't go into it here because it's a basic NetBackup
administration skill.
If you are getting barcodes passed through to NetBackup with an L4 hanging of
the end, then you will need a MEDIA_ID_BARCODE_CHARS setting in vm.conf, for
more detail on which see http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/236271.htm.
Hope this helps...
--
gabriel rosenkoetter
Radian Group Inc, Senior Systems Engineer
gabriel.rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz, 215 231 1556
________________________________
From: Roedy boy [mailto:roed212 AT yahoo DOT com]
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 8:31 PM
To: 'A Darren Dunham'; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu; Rosenkoetter,
Gabriel
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO4 recognized as DLT
Hi All,
Thanks for the respon so far, I've tried to insert the LTO4 media to another
NBU environment (ver 6.5.2) with L3000 library and its fine, NBU able to
recognized as HCART media. but again when i insert it back to NBU ver 6.5.1
with Sl500, NBU recognozed as DLT..
The idea is , I want to restore the image which backuped in Sl3000 & NBU 6.5.2
to SL500 & NBU 6.5.1.
Thanks.
Roed
--- On Sat, 12/20/08, Rosenkoetter, Gabriel <Gabriel.Rosenkoetter AT radian DOT
biz> wrote:
From: Rosenkoetter, Gabriel <Gabriel.Rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz>
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO4 recognized as DLT
To: "'A Darren Dunham'" <ddunham AT taos DOT com>, "veritas-bu AT
mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu" <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Date: Saturday, December 20, 2008, 4:03 AM
Um... there is no such thing as HCART4. You have to decide whether
you're
going to define your LTO-4 drives as HCART3 (and risk getting all your
LTO-4
media frozen when NetBackup puts it in an LTO-3 drive) or define your
LTO-4
drives as HCART (and not get
to use LTO-3 media in them). No, neither of those
is attractive, which is why getting the new physical media types
("eventually"), which functions along a drive and media capability
model rather than just generational tiering (Can a drive read this
media? Can it
write it if it's blank? Can it append to it at the current density
(think
IBM media types)? Can it encrypt to it?), but don't hold your breath.
As for the original poster, NetBackup labeled that media as DLT because
that's what your barcode rules told it to do. Go fix those.
--
gabriel rosenkoetter
Radian Group Inc, Senior Systems Engineer
gabriel.rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz, 215 231 1556
-----Original Message-----
From: A Darren Dunham [mailto:ddunham AT taos DOT com]
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 12:05 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO4 recognized as DLT
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 07:51:51PM
-0800, Roedy boy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have added a new LTO4 drive in SL500 Tape Library with 5 existing
> LTO3 drive, I have succesfull to backup LTO3 media with LTO4 drive,
> but when i did inventory LTO4 media it's recognized as DLT media not
> HCART, is anyone know why this happened? is it necessery to patch the
> nbu ?(currently 6.5.1).
Is your LTO3 drive of type 'HCART3'? And your LTO4 drive of type
'HCART4'?
Inventory is just done with barcodes. Do you have a barcode rule so
that your LTO4 media is brought in as type 'HCART4'? (or whatever type
you
have set your LTO4 drive to).
For instance my DEFAULT rule brings in tapes as HCART3, but I have a
rule
for cleaning tapes that brings them in as HC3_CLN.
--
Darren
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