Good call!!

Cheers

Stafford, Geoff wrote:
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> Set your catalog to backup the vm.conf file so when you restore the 
> catalog it brings that file back.  Right click catalog/configure 
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> **Geoff Stafford**
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> Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:06:28 +0000
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> From: Dave Markham <dave.markham AT fjserv DOT net>
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> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange problem after changing storage unit.
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> To: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
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> Cc: "veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu"
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> Dude i totally didn't read to the bottom of your email.
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> Thats exactly what has happened. Its now working.
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> Fantastic.  What a star.
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> How would i have found that out? Dear me.
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> Justin Piszcz wrote:
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> > On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Dave Markham wrote:
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> >> Netbackup 5.0MP7 running on Solaris with SL24
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> >> Guys i got a bit of weird issue i wondered if anyone could shed some
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> >> A customer is changing from an L1000 to an SL24, but wants to have
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> >> the L1000 configured also for historic restores until they expire.
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> >> In a test bed on same server hardware (e220r) i have built a fresh OS
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> >> using Sol9 09/05 (needed mpt driver for new Ultra320 HBA installed),
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> >> cabled up the SL24 with 2 x LTO3 drives in it.
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> >> - I installed NBU and patched to MP7 as the existing install is.
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> >> - Then got the catalogues over  and did a bprecover -r -dpath <path
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> >> to cats>
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> >> - This recovered everything including the old L1000 storage unit.
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> >> - I removed the robot and drives using tpconfig, vmadm.
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> >> - I then configured the new SL24 unit and did an inventory on which
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> >> brought in the new LTO3 tapes and put them as scratch (as by barcode
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> >> rules said to do).
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> >> - I can see all my old media in volume group ---  and all my new
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> >> media in 00_000_TLD
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> >> - I have left the L1000 storage unit configured in NBU as i want to
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> >> connect it later, where i will add using correct path etc.
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> >> - I have changed policies to use the SL24 storage unit
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> >> Now the problem is when i try and run a backup it is failing with
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> >> 96 no media available. I can't understand why as i have new media in
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> >> which is scratch.
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> >> Anyone any ideas? Do i need to remove the L1000 storage unit completely?
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> >> Is something hidden somewhere i need to change?
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> >> Cheers
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> > 1. So you took the tapes from the L1000 and put them into an SL24?
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> > 2. I am assuming the media servers did not change?
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> > 3. Did the drve tapes stay the same?
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> > 4. Did you inventory the library and make sure the media is scratch?
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> > 5. Is the barcode reader in the new robot inventorying the tapes the same
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> >     way as the old one?
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> > Wait, I know, at least in NetBackup 5.1x, you've hit the catalog 
> restore bug!
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> > The bug is this: After you recover the catalog it de-activates your
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> > scratch pool!
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> > Right click the Scratch volume pool, and select [x] Enable/Scratch Pool!
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> > This got me a few times as well :)
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> > Justin.
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