Re: [Veritas-bu] Merge 2 Master Servers

[WEAVER, Simon (external)]

Kevin
Expect alot of problems with this. I am sure young Ed Wilts advised this is
not supported and with 2 mixes of version of NBU 6.5, its not going to
be alot of fun.
 
Maybe just import the tapes you need, as and when required?
 
 

Regards

Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator 

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My group has been requested to take over the backups from another group.  I
have no interest in having multiple master servers, so I want to merge the 2
environments.

I figure my first issue is that my environment is 6.5 and theirs is 5.1.
So, I plan on upgrading them to 6.5 before I do anything.

Next, I need to make sure that they have no duplicate media ids.  I don't
have to worry about duplicate host names. 

Anybody ever do this?  If so, any information would be appreciated. 

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Re: [Veritas-bu] anyone would like to share or exchange?

[Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills)]

Actually I just received this link from Symantec who state "Free
Download".  This is what they use to analyze the network...I know
because right I am running into an Network utilization overload I am
guessing.

 

http://apparentnetworks.com/sas/310.

 

 

 

Thanks

Dan

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While this is a really good tool, it is NOT freeware. If you want to
license it from the company, go for it. Otherwise you're going to have
to wait for the results from Symantec.

 



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Dear masters...

anyone had the apparentnet (www.apparentnetworks.com) XML translator
result and kindly want to share? or maybe exchange with another tools
maybe?
usually, when using this apparentnet software to checking the network
traffic, I have to give the result to Symantec support guy to translate
the XML result, so we can investigate the result regarding netbackup
connection issue. Since need some times to wait the result, so maybe
anyone can share it? 

It's a great tools to check what happened in your network, which hop
causing some problems, which NIC card had firmware problem, etc...
hopefully there's a good people to share this.. ;)

Kind Regard, 
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Re: [Veritas-bu] anyone would like to share or exchange?

[RMajor]

While this is a really good tool, it is NOT freeware. If you want to
license it from the company, go for it. Otherwise you're going to have to
wait for the results from Symantec.

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Dear masters...

anyone had the apparentnet (www.apparentnetworks.com) XML translator
result and kindly want to share? or maybe exchange with another tools
maybe?
usually, when using this apparentnet software to checking the network
traffic, I have to give the result to Symantec support guy to translate
the XML result, so we can investigate the result regarding netbackup
connection issue. Since need some times to wait the result, so maybe
anyone can share it? 

It's a great tools to check what happened in your network, which hop
causing some problems, which NIC card had firmware problem, etc...
hopefully there's a good people to share this.. ;)

Kind Regard, 
Martin.

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[Veritas-bu] Recovering SAN Media servers during DR

[Mike Wigington]

We have a NetBackup 6.0 MP5 environment with 1 Master/ Media server and 1 Media 
server. I want to add a SAN Media server to the environment.  Does a SAN Media 
have to be recovered during a DR test  similar to the Media server  having to 
be recovered ?

TIA,
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Reclaiming tapes to the scratch volume pool

[Rosenkoetter, Gabriel]

That's possible but unlikely. The most frequent circumstance in which I
see tapes not being returned to the scratch pool when their images are
expired is when they were assigned as Vault duplicates for a Vault
profile that is later removed. If that Vault profile doesn't rerun
later, they won't be reclaimed properly under NBU 5.
 
(It "shouldn't" happen if the images were copy 1 or a regular
bpduplicate, but I don't think it's inherent evidence of catalog
corruption.)

--
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Something is wrong. Call support and ask for a database consistency
check

stefanos

 

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Thanks guys.  We're using NBU 5.1 on unix.  You are right that this
version doesn't move the tapes automatically (yet another reason to be
excited about our future move to 6.0 next year).  I was able to finally
figure out using vmquery with -deassignbyid, which moved them to the
scratch pool once I did it.  Thanks for the script, Gabriel.  That could
be a definite timesaver once I read through it and get it working!

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I use the attached for this.

 

It does exactly what you describe (walking through all media in
robotic control or taking a list of media on the command line).

 

The step you're missing is vmquery -deassignbyid. Otherwise,
you've got the right steps.

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pool

It depends on the version of NetBackup.  Older versions won't
move the tapes to the scratch pool automatically whereas the newer
versions do.  What version of NBU are you running?  Windows or Unix?

To manually move the tapes, look for an assigned date of
"00/00/" 

   .../Ed

 


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pool

I've run into a problem where my scratch volume pool is empty.
However, I have tons of empty tapes (can easily list with Aptare) that
just happen to be assigned to other specific pools.  I can manually run
bpimmedia on these empty tapes to verify that there are no images on
them.  But if I try to change the volume group on them via the GUI to
scratch (or the Netbackup pool), I get the "cannot change volume pool
for assigned media (91)" error.

 

If there are no images on the tape, what's the problem?  I
thought once images expired on tapes, they were supposed to
automatically be kicked back out to a scratch pool anyway.  I've found a
few places where I can manually force a tape into a different volume,
but it is pretty strongly suggested that you *not* do it that way.

 

Any suggestions?

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Merge 2 Master Servers

[Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills)]

We just did the same thing, but fortunately for me the two different
sites had different media prefixes so I got lucky.  The only issues we
ran into was getting the other site's library to intergrate
successfully, but it wasn't that big of a deal.   If you are running
vault, you will need to configure another vault profile for the two
different sites if you plan to continue to utilize the other site's
robotic / drives etc.  The only down fall to this is you will need to
manually change the current profile session to run vault on siteA's
robotics / siteB's robotics.  And again I was lucky enough that the
other site was a BCP site we were actually able to rebuild their NBU
servers from fresh.  If you have that ability you should be in good
shape.

 

If not, you are going to have some fun importing tapes for restores for
the site you are bringing in.  I don't know if there is a way to merge
both catalogs into one.  

 

Thanks

Dan

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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Merge 2 Master Servers

 

My group has been requested to take over the backups from another group.
I have no interest in having multiple master servers, so I want to merge
the 2 environments.

I figure my first issue is that my environment is 6.5 and theirs is 5.1.
So, I plan on upgrading them to 6.5 before I do anything.

Next, I need to make sure that they have no duplicate media ids.  I
don't have to worry about duplicate host names. 

Anybody ever do this?  If so, any information would be appreciated. 

Kevin Whittaker 
Syniverse Technologies 
Systems Engineer - UNIX Admin 
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Cell: (813) 810-6456 
 
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[Veritas-bu] Multiple jobs going to an incomplete status

[Cruice, Daniel (US - Glen Mills)]

NBU environment:

Totally Windows 2003 Ent all media servers have 4 gig of ram

Fiber NICs (NC6136)

NBU 6.0 MP4

 

 

Am running into an issue where I am getting a large number of
"incomplete" jobs.  And they all seem to be from a single media server.
I have gone thru three different Symantec Techs and am not any closer to
resolution and am getting quite frustrated.

 

So I reach out to the real experts.  Seems I can run fine up to about 60
jobs at the same time, right around this threshold is when jobs start to
go to an incomplete status almost every error code is a "25".  We tried
to decrease the TcpTimedWaitDelay from 240 seconds to 30 seconds in the
Windows Reg...still no worky.  Tried upgrading the NIC drives to the
most current, still not working.  Nothing has changed to NBU
environment, however I do not know about the Networking environment.
But will be reaching out to those guys as well.

 

Anyone seen this and does anyone have any suggestions.

 

 

Thanks

Dan Cruice

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[Veritas-bu] Any way to see upcoming backups?

[bthessel]

Thank you both of you. That is very helpful.

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Any way to see upcoming backups?

[BOGAC DAGDEVIR]

Commands are
Netbackup 6.X
nbpemreq -predict -date 

Netbackup 5.x
Bpschedreq -predict 

  

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Is there any way to see in Netbackup what will run on a future date? This seems 
to be something that would be very beneficial. If I could say pick a date and 
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Any way to see upcoming backups?

[Patrick]

Which version? In 6.5 

/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbpemreq -predict -date mm/dd/
HH:MM:SS
or
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbpemreq -predict -dateu unixtime

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Is there any way to see in Netbackup what will run on a future date? This
seems to be something that would be very beneficial. If I could say pick a
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Any way to see upcoming backups?

[Jared . Seaton]

on netbackup 6+ :

/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/nbpemreq -predict -date 


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Re: [Veritas-bu] Any way to see upcoming backups?

[Alexander Wasmuth]

bthessel wrote:

> Is there any way to see in Netbackup what will run on a future date? This
> seems to be something that would be very beneficial. If I could say pick a
> date and see all backup jobs that are currently scheduled to run it would be
> very helpful. Can this be done with a command line report?

If you're using 6.x then try

nbpemreq -predict -date 

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Merge 2 Master Servers

[ckstehman]

We have a similar situation, and considered merging two masters.  However 
we ruled that out because of the complexity of
the tape libraries and tapes, and the backup catalog..  In our situation 
we have two geographical locations, one is Solaris, the
other Windows.

I can be done, but it is strongly suggested that  Symantec Netbackup 
consulting be hired to assist.

It is non=trivial.

Good Luck

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Pepco Holdings, Inc.
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My group has been requested to take over the backups from another group. I 
have no interest in having multiple master servers, so I want to merge the 
2 environments.
I figure my first issue is that my environment is 6.5 and theirs is 5.1. 
So, I plan on upgrading them to 6.5 before I do anything.
Next, I need to make sure that they have no duplicate media ids.  I don't 
have to worry about duplicate host names. 
Anybody ever do this?  If so, any information would be appreciated. 
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Syniverse Technologies 
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[Veritas-bu] Any way to see upcoming backups?

[bthessel]

Is there any way to see in Netbackup what will run on a future date? This seems 
to be something that would be very beneficial. If I could say pick a date and 
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[Veritas-bu] Merge 2 Master Servers

[Kevin Whittaker]

My group has been requested to take over the backups from another group.
I have no interest in having multiple master servers, so I want to merge
the 2 environments.

I figure my first issue is that my environment is 6.5 and theirs is 5.1.
So, I plan on upgrading them to 6.5 before I do anything.

Next, I need to make sure that they have no duplicate media ids.  I
don't have to worry about duplicate host names.

Anybody ever do this?  If so, any information would be appreciated.

Kevin Whittaker
Syniverse Technologies
Systems Engineer - UNIX Admin
Work: (813) 637-5502
Cell: (813) 810-6456
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[Veritas-bu] anyone would like to share or exchange?

[Martin Ruslan]

Dear masters...

anyone had the apparentnet (www.apparentnetworks.com) XML translator result
and kindly want to share? or maybe exchange with another tools maybe?
usually, when using this apparentnet software to checking the network
traffic, I have to give the result to Symantec support guy to translate the
XML result, so we can investigate the result regarding netbackup connection
issue. Since need some times to wait the result, so maybe anyone can share
it?

It's a great tools to check what happened in your network, which hop causing
some problems, which NIC card had firmware problem, etc...
hopefully there's a good people to share this.. ;)

Kind Regard,
Martin.
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Re: [Veritas-bu] labelling a media when it is deassigned

[Mellor, Adam A.]

Kevin,

I have not done this before, however I waspondering how I might actually
perform it.

Just some thoughs, Not knowing exactly what netbackup is trying to do at
the time,

How long does it take to erase the tapes in question ?

Did you background your "erase_media.pl" script called by
deassign_notify ?

Also, I might suggest put a sleep in the perl script for  to allow netbackup to finish performing it's thing before
you go erasing the tape.

My thoughts.

Adam.

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I am currently running Solaris 9 with NetBackup 6.5, and a EMC CDL720
(virtual tape library).  I have over subscrided to help reduce the
amount of multiplexing that I do, so I have to quick erase the tapes as
they are deassigned.

When I upgraded to 6.5, I saw the
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/media_deassign_notify script, and figured I
could just throw my bplabel command within this.  Well, the first issue
I ran into was that NB is not passing the correct # of parameters to the
script.  Well, after I got around that, I needed more than the media id
to run bplabel, so I wrote a perl script.

Well, when I run the perl script by hand, it works great!  When I run it
under the media_deassign_notify it reflects the correct options on the
bplabel command but it freezes vmd.  What do I mean?  I mean it I can
not select any tapes and I can not kill the erase job on the activity
screen.  I have to do a UNIX kill to get rid of it.

Below is what I wrote, but my question is does anybody else already do
this?  If so, I would appreciate any direction on what I have done
wrong.

This is the line I added in the media_deassign_notify:

/usr/openv/scripts/erase_media.pl $1

Here is the perl script:

#!/usr/bin/perl
#
#  This script was created, because the CDL does not release space
already allocated.  So
#  when a virtual tape is used on the CDL and uses 200GB, it does not
release that space after
#  the tape is unassigned.  This is being called by
media_deassign_notify
#
#
open (LOG,">/tmp/erase_media.log") || die("can not open file");
$#rv=-1;
@rv = (split ' ', `/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmquery -l -m $ARGV[0]
|/usr/xpg4/bin/awk '{print \$1,\$8,\$12,\$15,\$20,\$21}'`);
# ###
# check to see if it NOT robot 3 (physical robot), and the assign date
is empty, and the # of mounts is greater than 0
# ###
if ($rv[1] != "3" && $rv[1] gt -1 && $rv[4] == "00/00/" && $rv[3] gt
0) {
   print LOG "Erasing " . $rv[0] . " Pool " . $rv[2] . "\n";
   system `/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bplabel -erase -m $rv[0] -d
hcart2 -o -p $rv[2]`;
} else {
   print LOG "Not Erasing " . $rv[0] . " Pool " . $rv[2] . " Robot "
. $rv[1] . " Date " . $rv[4] . " Mounts " . $rv[3] . "\n";
}
close(LOG);

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Reclaiming tapes to the scratch volume pool

[bobbyrjw]

In 4.5, 5.0, and 5.1, if the tape started in the pool designated as the 
"scratch pool", then it will automatically go back when it expires.

The pool has to be designated as the scrach pool.

When you need a tape, 4.5-5.1 will pull a tape from the scratch pool and use it.

Bobby.

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Thanks guys.  We're using NBU 5.1 on unix.  You are right that this version 
doesn't move the tapes automatically (yet another reason to be excited about 
our future move to 6.0 next year).  I was able to finally figure out using 
vmquery with -deassignbyid, which moved them to the scratch pool once I did it. 
 Thanks for the script, Gabriel.  That could be a definite timesaver once I 
read through it and get it working!
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Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 12:25 PM
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Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Reclaiming tapes to the scratch volume pool


I use the attached for this.

It does exactly what you describe (walking through all media in robotic control 
or taking a list of media on the command line).

The step you're missing is vmquery -deassignbyid. Otherwise, you've got the 
right steps.
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 -Original Message-
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 12:04 PM
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Reclaiming tapes to the scratch volume pool


It depends on the version of NetBackup.  Older versions won't move the tapes to 
the scratch pool automatically whereas the newer versions do.  What version of 
NBU are you running?  Windows or Unix?

To manually move the tapes, look for an assigned date of "00/00/" 

   .../Ed




From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Reclaiming tapes to the scratch volume pool



I've run into a problem where my scratch volume pool is empty.  However, I have 
tons of empty tapes (can easily list with Aptare) that just happen to be 
assigned to other specific pools.  I can manually run bpimmedia on these empty 
tapes to verify that there are no images on them.  But if I try to change the 
volume group on them via the GUI to scratch (or the Netbackup pool), I get the 
"cannot change volume pool for assigned media (91)" error.

If there are no images on the tape, what's the problem?  I thought once images 
expired on tapes, they were supposed to automatically be kicked back out to a 
scratch pool anyway.  I've found a few places where I can manually force a tape 
into a different volume, but it is pretty strongly suggested that you *not* do 
it that way.

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Reclaiming tapes to the scratch volume pool

[smpt]

If you have the tool to analyze the output of NBCC, please send it to me. 

Please

 

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Simon (external)
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 12:44 PM
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Why not just run the tool, and then if something looks to be wrong, call
support (if it really is justified)

 

http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/290489.htm

 

 

Regards

Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator 

EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS)
Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU

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Something is wrong. Call support and ask for a database consistency check

stefanos

 


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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Reclaiming tapes to the scratch volume pool

 

Thanks guys.  We're using NBU 5.1 on unix.  You are right that this version
doesn't move the tapes automatically (yet another reason to be excited about
our future move to 6.0 next year).  I was able to finally figure out using
vmquery with -deassignbyid, which moved them to the scratch pool once I did
it.  Thanks for the script, Gabriel.  That could be a definite timesaver
once I read through it and get it working!

-Original Message-
From: Rosenkoetter, Gabriel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 12:25 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Reclaiming tapes to the scratch volume pool

I use the attached for this.

 

It does exactly what you describe (walking through all media in robotic
control or taking a list of media on the command line).

 

The step you're missing is vmquery -deassignbyid. Otherwise, you've got the
right steps.

--
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Radian Group Inc, Unix/Linux/VMware Sysadmin / Backup & Recovery
[EMAIL PROTECTED], 215 231 1556 

 

 

 -Original Message-
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 12:04 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Reclaiming tapes to the scratch volume pool

It depends on the version of NetBackup.  Older versions won't move the tapes
to the scratch pool automatically whereas the newer versions do.  What
version of NBU are you running?  Windows or Unix?

To manually move the tapes, look for an assigned date of "00/00/" 

   .../Ed

 


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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 12:17 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Reclaiming tapes to the scratch volume pool

I've run into a problem where my scratch volume pool is empty.  However, I
have tons of empty tapes (can easily list with Aptare) that just happen to
be assigned to other specific pools.  I can manually run bpimmedia on these
empty tapes to verify that there are no images on them.  But if I try to
change the volume group on them via the GUI to scratch (or the Netbackup
pool), I get the "cannot change volume pool for assigned media (91)" error.

 

If there are no images on the tape, what's the problem?  I thought once
images expired on tapes, they were supposed to automatically be kicked back
out to a scratch pool anyway.  I've found a few places where I can manually
force a tape into a different volume, but it is pretty strongly suggested
that you *not* do it that way.

 

Any suggestions?

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Reclaiming tapes to the scratch volume pool

[smpt]

Something is wrong. Call support and ask for a database consistency check

stefanos

 

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 11:10 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Reclaiming tapes to the scratch volume pool

 

Thanks guys.  We're using NBU 5.1 on unix.  You are right that this version
doesn't move the tapes automatically (yet another reason to be excited about
our future move to 6.0 next year).  I was able to finally figure out using
vmquery with -deassignbyid, which moved them to the scratch pool once I did
it.  Thanks for the script, Gabriel.  That could be a definite timesaver
once I read through it and get it working!

-Original Message-
From: Rosenkoetter, Gabriel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 12:25 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Reclaiming tapes to the scratch volume pool

I use the attached for this.

 

It does exactly what you describe (walking through all media in robotic
control or taking a list of media on the command line).

 

The step you're missing is vmquery -deassignbyid. Otherwise, you've got the
right steps.

--
gabriel rosenkoetter
Radian Group Inc, Unix/Linux/VMware Sysadmin / Backup & Recovery
[EMAIL PROTECTED], 215 231 1556 

 

 

 -Original Message-
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 12:04 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Reclaiming tapes to the scratch volume pool

It depends on the version of NetBackup.  Older versions won't move the tapes
to the scratch pool automatically whereas the newer versions do.  What
version of NBU are you running?  Windows or Unix?

To manually move the tapes, look for an assigned date of "00/00/" 

   .../Ed

 


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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 12:17 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Reclaiming tapes to the scratch volume pool

I've run into a problem where my scratch volume pool is empty.  However, I
have tons of empty tapes (can easily list with Aptare) that just happen to
be assigned to other specific pools.  I can manually run bpimmedia on these
empty tapes to verify that there are no images on them.  But if I try to
change the volume group on them via the GUI to scratch (or the Netbackup
pool), I get the "cannot change volume pool for assigned media (91)" error.

 

If there are no images on the tape, what's the problem?  I thought once
images expired on tapes, they were supposed to automatically be kicked back
out to a scratch pool anyway.  I've found a few places where I can manually
force a tape into a different volume, but it is pretty strongly suggested
that you *not* do it that way.

 

Any suggestions?

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Reclaiming tapes to the scratch volume pool

[WEAVER, Simon (external)]

Why not just run the tool, and then if something looks to be wrong, call
support (if it really is justified)
 
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/290489.htm
 
 
 

Regards

Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator 

EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS)
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Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 10:44 AM
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Reclaiming tapes to the scratch volume pool



Something is wrong. Call support and ask for a database consistency check

stefanos

 


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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 11:10 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Reclaiming tapes to the scratch volume pool

 

Thanks guys.  We're using NBU 5.1 on unix.  You are right that this version
doesn't move the tapes automatically (yet another reason to be excited about
our future move to 6.0 next year).  I was able to finally figure out using
vmquery with -deassignbyid, which moved them to the scratch pool once I did
it.  Thanks for the script, Gabriel.  That could be a definite timesaver
once I read through it and get it working!

-Original Message-
From: Rosenkoetter, Gabriel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 12:25 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Reclaiming tapes to the scratch volume pool

I use the attached for this.

 

It does exactly what you describe (walking through all media in robotic
control or taking a list of media on the command line).

 

The step you're missing is vmquery -deassignbyid. Otherwise, you've got the
right steps.

--
gabriel rosenkoetter
Radian Group Inc, Unix/Linux/VMware Sysadmin / Backup & Recovery
[EMAIL PROTECTED], 215 231 1556 

 

 

 -Original Message-
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 12:04 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Reclaiming tapes to the scratch volume pool

It depends on the version of NetBackup.  Older versions won't move the tapes
to the scratch pool automatically whereas the newer versions do.  What
version of NBU are you running?  Windows or Unix?

To manually move the tapes, look for an assigned date of "00/00/" 

   .../Ed

 


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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 12:17 PM
To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Reclaiming tapes to the scratch volume pool

I've run into a problem where my scratch volume pool is empty.  However, I
have tons of empty tapes (can easily list with Aptare) that just happen to
be assigned to other specific pools.  I can manually run bpimmedia on these
empty tapes to verify that there are no images on them.  But if I try to
change the volume group on them via the GUI to scratch (or the Netbackup
pool), I get the "cannot change volume pool for assigned media (91)" error.

 

If there are no images on the tape, what's the problem?  I thought once
images expired on tapes, they were supposed to automatically be kicked back
out to a scratch pool anyway.  I've found a few places where I can manually
force a tape into a different volume, but it is pretty strongly suggested
that you *not* do it that way.

 

Any suggestions?



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