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chriswilkes33's avatar
chriswilkes33
Level 3
2 years ago

Invalid Drive Index when trying to delete drive

I am running Netbackup 10.1.1 on a RedHat 8 server. I recently did a catalog restore recovering from a hardware failure and I am having trouble connecting to two of our drives in a robot. There are s...
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  • mph999's avatar
    mph999
    2 years ago

    Suspect there is some 'confusion' in NBDB - without an unload it's only going to be a guess.
    Delete everything (this shouldn't care about any issues, it's like hitting it with a hammer)

    nbemmcmd -deletealldevices -allrecords

    Then re-configre.

    The only other way is manual SQL on NBDB, this needs Engineering and they will first request to use the above command anyway.  It deletes all devices (robots and tapes) so in some circumstances you would avoid it due to the amount of devices to reconfigure.

Alexis_Jeldrez's avatar
Alexis_Jeldrez
Level 6
2 years ago

Just delete all drives and robots and regenerate them with the wizard. If you had a hardware failure then there's a big chance they don't have the same path anyway. Just make sure you can see drives and robots with "cat /proc/scsi/scsi".