Re: [Veritas-bu] bpcd notification on Solaris client

2007-03-28 Thread George Drew
The messages are being logged by inetd. If you don't want inetd to log connections, then turn off inetd tracing (remove '-t' from inetd startup). I wouldn't recommend turning off daemon.notice in syslog.conf. Makes it difficult to troubleshoot actual problems. George On Mar 28, 2007, at

Re: [Veritas-bu] Strange errors in netapp messages log after upgrade of nbu from 5.1 to 60MP2 -- diag gear

2006-05-15 Thread George Drew
Len, This message means that you have some device in the path to your tape drive that isn't happy with 16-byte CDBs (some scsi-3 commands). This one in particular is the scsi-3 "WRITE ATTRIBUTE" command. (Reference: http://t10.org/ftp/t10/drafts/spc4/spc4r04.pdf) George On Sat, 13 May 2006, Le

RE: [Veritas-bu] Cleaning issues: LTO-3/ADIC i2k and NBU 5.1 MP3

2006-03-06 Thread George Drew
The drives seem to need cleaning after about 500 or 600 hours of use. Regards, Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of George Drew Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 6:14 PM To: Paul Keating Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Cleaning issues: LTO-3/ADIC i2k and NBU 5.1 MP3

2006-03-02 Thread George Drew
The best thing to do (for nbu versions < 6.0) is to ignore those lights. Those versions of netbackup only recognize two of the 48 or so possible flags set on the tapealert log page, clean now and clean periodic. The light on the front of the drive could get set for who knows how many of the

RE: [Veritas-bu] recommended LTO2 drive fragment size?

2006-01-25 Thread George Drew
I would recommend that 2Gb is probably not a large enough fragment size, as that's barely long enough for the drive to get up to speed. Figure 70MB/sec transfer rate (optimally), and your drive is stopping every 4 minutes (roughly). Add multi-plexing and that could be even more often, not to men