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Re: [Veritas-bu] SL500 with NetBackup 6.5.3 - Tapes Remain in drive

2009-09-17 06:15:52
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] SL500 with NetBackup 6.5.3 - Tapes Remain in drive
From: "WEAVER, Simon \(external\)" <simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net>
To: <smpt1 AT peppas DOT gr>, <VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:11:29 +0100
Hi
I tried this earlier, with no success.
In the end, I removed the drive physically, and done a media inventory again.
however, NetBackup was still complaining the drive was in use, even though it wasnt!
 
I ended up Shutting down the Services and restarting.
Seems drastic !
Simon


From: smpt [mailto:smpt1 AT peppas DOT gr]
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 9:39 AM
To: WEAVER, Simon (external); VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] SL500 with NetBackup 6.5.3 - Tapes Remain in drive

Hi,

First use vmoprcmd –reset <drive index>. This will unload the drive and move it to the right place.

If vmoprcmd fail you can use robtest.

Robtest cut the connection between the library and netbackup but if you do not forget it open, netbackup will queue all commands and send it when the connection reestablish. The drives will not go into AVR mode if you do one move at a robtest session.

 

Check the system messages of the robotic controller and see if netbackup send the move commands to the library after the backup. (you may have to start the ltid with –v.

 

 

 


From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon (external)
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 11:21 AM
To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] SL500 with NetBackup 6.5.3 - Tapes Remain in drive

 

All
Anyone got one of these so called enterprise robots?
Have to admit, I am finding this to be a poor mans choice of a Tape Robotic solution, especially after coming from an Enterprise ESL !

Occasionly, tapes remain in the drive. no errors are logged in system, application, or bptm logs.

Everything looks fine. On the RARE occasion, if this happened on the ESL, I can use Command View to move tape back to its own location, or from the front end panel!

Great stuff! With this device... nowt !!! Even the Java GUI seems poor!

I could try with RobTest, but do not want to try with backups running !

Any other ideas? Feedback would be grateful especially those that have this device..... after all it could just be my feelings that the SL500 is bad, but others may view it as good!

 

Regards

Simon

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