Re: [Veritas-bu] Can't get nbu to use drives, and cant 'up' the drives.

If the devices are scsi attached, you can take the system down to the OK prompt and run probe-scsi-all to verify that at the OS level, the drives are being presented. This page tells you how to do it:
http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/114/troubleshoot-scsi-devices-with-probe-scsi-all/

Alternatively, have you tried to reconfigure the drives using the NBU wizard? If the drives or cables were swapped accidentally when putting them back in the library, then you have re-ordered the presentation to the OS, and then NBU, which makes NBU not happy and you get the scenario you have.

Since you only have two drives, it might just be simpler/quicker to completely remove the drives from the OS and re add them, then re-run the drive config wizard or manually reconfigure them.

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I don't think this problem is a NBU issue. It looks like Solaris has lost the drives. You need to rescan the devices to make sure that Solaris can see the drives. I believe you can run "devfsadm -c tape" to have the system rescan for devices or issue a "touch /reconfigure" then reboot the system. Once you can confirm that Solaris can see the drives and tapes (using mt command and suggestion from Len), then I bet NBU will just start working again. Granted that the device names haven't changed [Wink] +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by tom AT tjsimerson DOT org 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

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