Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Cannot Write to Tape

2010-04-13 11:20:29
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Cannot Write to Tape
From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
To: "McDonald II, James F." <JAMES.F.MCDONALD.II AT saic DOT com>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:20:21 -0400 (EDT)
Hi,

It is discussed here:
http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/two-way-mirrors-of-external-mailing-lists-3/symantec-netbackup-18/media-id-generation-50402/

You need to fix your vm.conf, delete all the media (since you said its not 
been used yet) and re-inventory with the correct barcode information..

But I suspect something else may be going on as well.

Justin.

On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, McDonald II, James F. wrote:

> NBU has been writing to disk for a while, but I just recently tried
> setting up the tape backups, for off-site storage.  I have run
> inventories and it says the volume configuration is up-to-date with the
> contents.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:55 AM
> To: McDonald II, James F.
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Cannot Write to Tape
>
> Hi,
>
> Please include the list in the future.
> It appears you need to limit your labels to 6 characters.
> Check the volume manager manual, you need to edit vm.conf for NBU 6.x++
> the labels for LTOX should be no more than 6 characters long, if your
> barcode reader reads more than the first 6 characters, you need to limit
>
> it.
>
> BTW, is this a new environment?
> Or did this just start happening?
> If it just started happening, have you run an inventory and retried the
> backup?
>
> Justin.
>
> On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, McDonald II, James F. wrote:
>
>> Here is what I got when I ran the test:
>>
>> Opening {4,0,33,1}
>> MODE_SENSE Complete
>> Enter tld commands (? returns help information)
>> s d
>> drive 1 (addr 32) access = 1 Contains Cartridge = Yes
>> Barcode = 000001L4
>> SCSI ID from drive 1 is 0
>> READ_ELEMENT_STATUS Complete
>>
>> I tried double-checking the barcode result, by doing a robot
> inventory.
>> 000001L4 was not included in the inventory, but I'm almost positive
> it's
>> in there.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:12 AM
>> To: WEAVER, Simon (external)
>> Cc: McDonald II, James F.; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Cannot Write to Tape
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Reboot the master, run robtest and run "s d" does it show the drives
> OK?
>>
>> Justin.
>>
>> On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, WEAVER, Simon (external) wrote:
>>
>>> Have you rebooted the Master just in case?
>>> Anything changed to cause this problem?
>>> Have you enabled any logging?
>>>
>>> Simon
>>>
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>> McDonald
>>> II, James F.
>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 1:43 PM
>>> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>>> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Cannot Write to Tape
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> My backups write to disk without any problem, but when I try to run a
>>> Tape Backup I get one of three status codes: 200, 252 or 800.  I have
>>> researched all three and still have not been able to come up with a
>>> solution.  I am running NBU 6.5 for Windows on a Dell 2950 with
> Server
>>> 2003 as the OS.  The tape drive is a Dell PV-124T.  Diagnostics run
>> from
>>> the tapeloader all seem to pass and the inventories run from within
>> NBU
>>> all seem to be correct, but I can't get anything to begin to write.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> James McDonald
>>>
>>> System Administrator
>>>
>>> SAIC - IISBU
>>>
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>>>
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