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Beavisrulz's avatar
Beavisrulz
Level 4
13 years ago

Duplications fail with media open error(83)

Hello, we're having random issues where a few duplications fail each day out of an easy hundred or so. Here's our current configuration: - NetBackup 7.1.0.3 on master, all media servers, and most c...
7.1.x and Earlier
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  • Mark_Solutions's avatar
    Mark_Solutions
    11 years ago

    Back after a 3 week break (needed it!!) and just picking up on things.

    Just a thought on the difference between linking and renaming when this issues ocurr ....

    A link makes both upper and lower case versions valid where as a rename only makes one valid

    The case sensitivity only shows up when we duplicate or verify the back images - the trouble is that this will also apply to restoring them .. so if we use the link method then restores from when the client or policy was in one case will always work - if we rename we may find an issue in the future when we come to do restores from old backups.

    I haven't been in a position to test this but I would still prefer the link method just to be on the safe side as, after all, we only back things up in order to be able to restore them!

    Hope this gives more food for thought

Mark_Solutions's avatar
Mark_Solutions
Level 6
11 years ago

Back after a 3 week break (needed it!!) and just picking up on things.

Just a thought on the difference between linking and renaming when this issues ocurr ....

A link makes both upper and lower case versions valid where as a rename only makes one valid

The case sensitivity only shows up when we duplicate or verify the back images - the trouble is that this will also apply to restoring them .. so if we use the link method then restores from when the client or policy was in one case will always work - if we rename we may find an issue in the future when we come to do restores from old backups.

I haven't been in a position to test this but I would still prefer the link method just to be on the safe side as, after all, we only back things up in order to be able to restore them!

Hope this gives more food for thought