Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Media error stops entire backup

2009-08-10 06:24:46
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Media error stops entire backup
From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
To: VERITAS-BU AT MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:21:00 -0400 (EDT)
Hi,

Show the errors from the logs/failed jobs.

Justin.

On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, annym wrote:

>
> Hello community, this last weekend I had an error on one tape. This tape is 
> in a tape robot and the error indicates media error for this tape.
>
> The problem however is that I had hoped that Netbackup should handle this 
> issue by not trying to use this tape but take another one from the scratch 
> pool. This didn't happened. Netbackup tried to mount this tape several times 
> instead of using another tape. I had 13 more tape s in the scratchpool when 
> his happened. This resulted in that the entire fullbackup failed this 
> weekend. What also happened is that the robot drive went into down state.
>
> I don't know if there is anyway to configure Netbackup to handle this 
> scenario. I've tried to find someway to configure this but really don't know 
> where to look inside the GUI or any other config file inside the Netbackup 
> directory structure. Does anyone know if and how to configure a Netbackup 
> server to handle this?
>
> The version I'm running is Netbackup 6.5.3 on a Windows 2003 server. This 
> server is also media server with a HP MSL2024 taperobot attached to it. The 
> robot has one internal drive.
>
> Thanks
> Anders
>
> +----------------------------------------------------------------------
> |This was sent by anders.nyman AT exait DOT se via Backup Central.
> |Forward SPAM to abuse AT backupcentral DOT com.
> +----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Veritas-bu maillist  -  Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
>
_______________________________________________
Veritas-bu maillist  -  Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>