Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange problem after changing storage unit.
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Dave Markham wrote: Netbackup 5.0MP7 running on Solaris with SL24 Guys i got a bit of weird issue i wondered if anyone could shed some light on. A customer is changing from an L1000 to an SL24, but wants to have the L1000 configured also for historic restores until they expire. In a test bed on same server hardware (e220r) i have built a fresh OS using Sol9 09/05 (needed mpt driver for new Ultra320 HBA installed), cabled up the SL24 with 2 x LTO3 drives in it. - I installed NBU and patched to MP7 as the existing install is. - Then got the catalogues over and did a bprecover -r -dpath path to cats - This recovered everything including the old L1000 storage unit. - I removed the robot and drives using tpconfig, vmadm. - I then configured the new SL24 unit and did an inventory on which brought in the new LTO3 tapes and put them as scratch (as by barcode rules said to do). - I can see all my old media in volume group --- and all my new media in 00_000_TLD - I have left the L1000 storage unit configured in NBU as i want to connect it later, where i will add using correct path etc. - I have changed policies to use the SL24 storage unit Now the problem is when i try and run a backup it is failing with status 96 no media available. I can't understand why as i have new media in which is scratch. Anyone any ideas? Do i need to remove the L1000 storage unit completely? Is something hidden somewhere i need to change? Cheers ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu 1. So you took the tapes from the L1000 and put them into an SL24? 2. I am assuming the media servers did not change? 3. Did the drve tapes stay the same? 4. Did you inventory the library and make sure the media is scratch? 5. Is the barcode reader in the new robot inventorying the tapes the same way as the old one? -- Wait, I know, at least in NetBackup 5.1x, you've hit the catalog restore bug! The bug is this: After you recover the catalog it de-activates your scratch pool! Right click the Scratch volume pool, and select [x] Enable/Scratch Pool! This got me a few times as well :) Justin. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange problem after changing storage unit.
1. So you took the tapes from the L1000 and put them into an SL24? No, The new unit is LTO3 and we have brand new tapes with new barcodes. The reason i have restored catalogue is so we have historic data. My idea was to hook up the L1000 when we transfer this server down, configure it and then be able to restore from it, but not use it to backup 2. I am assuming the media servers did not change? Just a simple master/media in one box. With some remote network clients. Currently i'm building this in the lap so have E220 connected via scsi to SL24 with 2 x LTO3 drives and 20 odd LTO3 tapes with new barcodes. 3. Did the drve tapes stay the same? No. The new tapes are hcart3 and the old ones are DLT. The policies have changed to use new storage unit, but i wasn't aware you needed to change tape types at all? 4. Did you inventory the library and make sure the media is scratch? Yeah inventory all works and matches up with physical. The new volume group 00_000_TLD sees tapes in correct slots. 5. Is the barcode reader in the new robot inventorying the tapes the same way as the old one? New altogether. Justin Piszcz wrote: On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Dave Markham wrote: Netbackup 5.0MP7 running on Solaris with SL24 Guys i got a bit of weird issue i wondered if anyone could shed some light on. A customer is changing from an L1000 to an SL24, but wants to have the L1000 configured also for historic restores until they expire. In a test bed on same server hardware (e220r) i have built a fresh OS using Sol9 09/05 (needed mpt driver for new Ultra320 HBA installed), cabled up the SL24 with 2 x LTO3 drives in it. - I installed NBU and patched to MP7 as the existing install is. - Then got the catalogues over and did a bprecover -r -dpath path to cats - This recovered everything including the old L1000 storage unit. - I removed the robot and drives using tpconfig, vmadm. - I then configured the new SL24 unit and did an inventory on which brought in the new LTO3 tapes and put them as scratch (as by barcode rules said to do). - I can see all my old media in volume group --- and all my new media in 00_000_TLD - I have left the L1000 storage unit configured in NBU as i want to connect it later, where i will add using correct path etc. - I have changed policies to use the SL24 storage unit Now the problem is when i try and run a backup it is failing with status 96 no media available. I can't understand why as i have new media in which is scratch. Anyone any ideas? Do i need to remove the L1000 storage unit completely? Is something hidden somewhere i need to change? Cheers ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu 1. So you took the tapes from the L1000 and put them into an SL24? 2. I am assuming the media servers did not change? 3. Did the drve tapes stay the same? 4. Did you inventory the library and make sure the media is scratch? 5. Is the barcode reader in the new robot inventorying the tapes the same way as the old one? -- Wait, I know, at least in NetBackup 5.1x, you've hit the catalog restore bug! The bug is this: After you recover the catalog it de-activates your scratch pool! Right click the Scratch volume pool, and select [x] Enable/Scratch Pool! This got me a few times as well :) Justin. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange problem after changing storage unit.
Dude i totally didn't read to the bottom of your email. Thats exactly what has happened. Its now working. Fantastic. What a star. How would i have found that out? Dear me. Cheers Justin Piszcz wrote: On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Dave Markham wrote: Netbackup 5.0MP7 running on Solaris with SL24 Guys i got a bit of weird issue i wondered if anyone could shed some light on. A customer is changing from an L1000 to an SL24, but wants to have the L1000 configured also for historic restores until they expire. In a test bed on same server hardware (e220r) i have built a fresh OS using Sol9 09/05 (needed mpt driver for new Ultra320 HBA installed), cabled up the SL24 with 2 x LTO3 drives in it. - I installed NBU and patched to MP7 as the existing install is. - Then got the catalogues over and did a bprecover -r -dpath path to cats - This recovered everything including the old L1000 storage unit. - I removed the robot and drives using tpconfig, vmadm. - I then configured the new SL24 unit and did an inventory on which brought in the new LTO3 tapes and put them as scratch (as by barcode rules said to do). - I can see all my old media in volume group --- and all my new media in 00_000_TLD - I have left the L1000 storage unit configured in NBU as i want to connect it later, where i will add using correct path etc. - I have changed policies to use the SL24 storage unit Now the problem is when i try and run a backup it is failing with status 96 no media available. I can't understand why as i have new media in which is scratch. Anyone any ideas? Do i need to remove the L1000 storage unit completely? Is something hidden somewhere i need to change? Cheers ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu 1. So you took the tapes from the L1000 and put them into an SL24? 2. I am assuming the media servers did not change? 3. Did the drve tapes stay the same? 4. Did you inventory the library and make sure the media is scratch? 5. Is the barcode reader in the new robot inventorying the tapes the same way as the old one? -- Wait, I know, at least in NetBackup 5.1x, you've hit the catalog restore bug! The bug is this: After you recover the catalog it de-activates your scratch pool! Right click the Scratch volume pool, and select [x] Enable/Scratch Pool! This got me a few times as well :) Justin. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange problem after changing storage unit.
Set your catalog to backup the vm.conf file so when you restore the catalog it brings that file back. Right click catalog/configure catalog backup/files tab/add path to vm.conf. Geoff Stafford Barclaycard US Data Protection Team Manager office: mobile: Message: 13 Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:06:28 + From: Dave Markham dave.mark...@fjserv.net Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange problem after changing storage unit. To: Justin Piszcz jpis...@lucidpixels.com Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Message-ID: 49afdc64.5090...@fjserv.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Dude i totally didn't read to the bottom of your email. Thats exactly what has happened. Its now working. Fantastic. What a star. How would i have found that out? Dear me. Cheers Justin Piszcz wrote: On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Dave Markham wrote: Netbackup 5.0MP7 running on Solaris with SL24 Guys i got a bit of weird issue i wondered if anyone could shed some light on. A customer is changing from an L1000 to an SL24, but wants to have the L1000 configured also for historic restores until they expire. In a test bed on same server hardware (e220r) i have built a fresh OS using Sol9 09/05 (needed mpt driver for new Ultra320 HBA installed), cabled up the SL24 with 2 x LTO3 drives in it. - I installed NBU and patched to MP7 as the existing install is. - Then got the catalogues over and did a bprecover -r -dpath path to cats - This recovered everything including the old L1000 storage unit. - I removed the robot and drives using tpconfig, vmadm. - I then configured the new SL24 unit and did an inventory on which brought in the new LTO3 tapes and put them as scratch (as by barcode rules said to do). - I can see all my old media in volume group --- and all my new media in 00_000_TLD - I have left the L1000 storage unit configured in NBU as i want to connect it later, where i will add using correct path etc. - I have changed policies to use the SL24 storage unit Now the problem is when i try and run a backup it is failing with status 96 no media available. I can't understand why as i have new media in which is scratch. Anyone any ideas? Do i need to remove the L1000 storage unit completely? Is something hidden somewhere i need to change? Cheers ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu 1. So you took the tapes from the L1000 and put them into an SL24? 2. I am assuming the media servers did not change? 3. Did the drve tapes stay the same? 4. Did you inventory the library and make sure the media is scratch? 5. Is the barcode reader in the new robot inventorying the tapes the same way as the old one? -- Wait, I know, at least in NetBackup 5.1x, you've hit the catalog restore bug! The bug is this: After you recover the catalog it de-activates your scratch pool! Right click the Scratch volume pool, and select [x] Enable/Scratch Pool! This got me a few times as well :) Justin. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu Barclays www.barclaycardus.com This e-mail and any files transmitted with it may contain confidential and/or proprietary information. It is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity who is the intended recipient. Unauthorized use of this information is prohibited. If you have received this in error, please contact the sender by replying to this message and delete this material from any system it may be on. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange problem after changing storage unit.
Did you change the polices to use a new storage unit on the new library or are the still set to use storage units on the old library? -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Dave Markham Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 8:05 AM To: Justin Piszcz Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange problem after changing storage unit. 1. So you took the tapes from the L1000 and put them into an SL24? No, The new unit is LTO3 and we have brand new tapes with new barcodes. The reason i have restored catalogue is so we have historic data. My idea was to hook up the L1000 when we transfer this server down, configure it and then be able to restore from it, but not use it to backup 2. I am assuming the media servers did not change? Just a simple master/media in one box. With some remote network clients. Currently i'm building this in the lap so have E220 connected via scsi to SL24 with 2 x LTO3 drives and 20 odd LTO3 tapes with new barcodes. 3. Did the drve tapes stay the same? No. The new tapes are hcart3 and the old ones are DLT. The policies have changed to use new storage unit, but i wasn't aware you needed to change tape types at all? 4. Did you inventory the library and make sure the media is scratch? Yeah inventory all works and matches up with physical. The new volume group 00_000_TLD sees tapes in correct slots. 5. Is the barcode reader in the new robot inventorying the tapes the same way as the old one? New altogether. Justin Piszcz wrote: On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Dave Markham wrote: Netbackup 5.0MP7 running on Solaris with SL24 Guys i got a bit of weird issue i wondered if anyone could shed some light on. A customer is changing from an L1000 to an SL24, but wants to have the L1000 configured also for historic restores until they expire. In a test bed on same server hardware (e220r) i have built a fresh OS using Sol9 09/05 (needed mpt driver for new Ultra320 HBA installed), cabled up the SL24 with 2 x LTO3 drives in it. - I installed NBU and patched to MP7 as the existing install is. - Then got the catalogues over and did a bprecover -r -dpath path to cats - This recovered everything including the old L1000 storage unit. - I removed the robot and drives using tpconfig, vmadm. - I then configured the new SL24 unit and did an inventory on which brought in the new LTO3 tapes and put them as scratch (as by barcode rules said to do). - I can see all my old media in volume group --- and all my new media in 00_000_TLD - I have left the L1000 storage unit configured in NBU as i want to connect it later, where i will add using correct path etc. - I have changed policies to use the SL24 storage unit Now the problem is when i try and run a backup it is failing with status 96 no media available. I can't understand why as i have new media in which is scratch. Anyone any ideas? Do i need to remove the L1000 storage unit completely? Is something hidden somewhere i need to change? Cheers ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu 1. So you took the tapes from the L1000 and put them into an SL24? 2. I am assuming the media servers did not change? 3. Did the drve tapes stay the same? 4. Did you inventory the library and make sure the media is scratch? 5. Is the barcode reader in the new robot inventorying the tapes the same way as the old one? -- Wait, I know, at least in NetBackup 5.1x, you've hit the catalog restore bug! The bug is this: After you recover the catalog it de-activates your scratch pool! Right click the Scratch volume pool, and select [x] Enable/Scratch Pool! This got me a few times as well :) Justin. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange problem after changing storage unit.
Good call!! Cheers Stafford, Geoff wrote: Set your catalog to backup the vm.conf file so when you restore the catalog it brings that file back. Right click catalog/configure catalog backup/files tab/add path to vm.conf. **Geoff Stafford** Barclaycard US Data Protection Team Manager office: mobile: Message: 13 Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:06:28 + From: Dave Markham dave.mark...@fjserv.net Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange problem after changing storage unit. To: Justin Piszcz jpis...@lucidpixels.com Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Message-ID: 49afdc64.5090...@fjserv.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Dude i totally didn't read to the bottom of your email. Thats exactly what has happened. Its now working. Fantastic. What a star. How would i have found that out? Dear me. Cheers Justin Piszcz wrote: On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Dave Markham wrote: Netbackup 5.0MP7 running on Solaris with SL24 Guys i got a bit of weird issue i wondered if anyone could shed some light on. A customer is changing from an L1000 to an SL24, but wants to have the L1000 configured also for historic restores until they expire. In a test bed on same server hardware (e220r) i have built a fresh OS using Sol9 09/05 (needed mpt driver for new Ultra320 HBA installed), cabled up the SL24 with 2 x LTO3 drives in it. - I installed NBU and patched to MP7 as the existing install is. - Then got the catalogues over and did a bprecover -r -dpath path to cats - This recovered everything including the old L1000 storage unit. - I removed the robot and drives using tpconfig, vmadm. - I then configured the new SL24 unit and did an inventory on which brought in the new LTO3 tapes and put them as scratch (as by barcode rules said to do). - I can see all my old media in volume group --- and all my new media in 00_000_TLD - I have left the L1000 storage unit configured in NBU as i want to connect it later, where i will add using correct path etc. - I have changed policies to use the SL24 storage unit Now the problem is when i try and run a backup it is failing with status 96 no media available. I can't understand why as i have new media in which is scratch. Anyone any ideas? Do i need to remove the L1000 storage unit completely? Is something hidden somewhere i need to change? Cheers ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu 1. So you took the tapes from the L1000 and put them into an SL24? 2. I am assuming the media servers did not change? 3. Did the drve tapes stay the same? 4. Did you inventory the library and make sure the media is scratch? 5. Is the barcode reader in the new robot inventorying the tapes the same way as the old one? -- Wait, I know, at least in NetBackup 5.1x, you've hit the catalog restore bug! The bug is this: After you recover the catalog it de-activates your scratch pool! Right click the Scratch volume pool, and select [x] Enable/Scratch Pool! This got me a few times as well :) Justin. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Barclays www.barclaycardus.com ___ This e-mail and any files transmitted with it may contain confidential and/or proprietary information. It is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity who is the intended recipient. Unauthorized use of this information is prohibited. If you have received this in error, please contact the sender by replying to this message and delete this material from any system it may be on. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
