Lost my tape library
I have 3 backup servers, my master and one media server is Windows 2008 R2 and running Netbackup 8.0. The other is running 2003 and NBU 7.5.0.7. This older server is only used for offsiting with the ...
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I've always found the key on these things to be establishing the device presence in the OS first, then you can get NBU to scan for and find the devices.
So the question is: why does the OS not see any of the devices?
How are they connected etc?
Have you rebooted the library too?
That's what I've determined. They are connected through Fiber, zoned correctly, connections are up. I rebooted the library and server and also bounced the fiber ports on the SAN switch. It's driving me crazy.
Well, you're on really old versions (unsupported no less) of this part of this scenario.
Can you stand up a replacement server (prefferably with a more modern OS) and get it connected to the devices?
On the bright side, with tapes, it's not too painful to change ownership of them.
If you can get a repalcement setup, just run a decommission against the old media server and have it switch ownership of its images to the new one, then you should be back in business. (Assuming there's no diskpool on the old one involved and its just tape)
Yes, I know. This is my issue. I'm in the process of setting up a new tape library on my 2008r2 media server that's running 8. My plan is to get that up and running and then decommissioning the 2003 box and old library. My biggist problem now is remembering the steps to configuring the changer and drives. ;-) This is the only location that we offsite from. Looking at offsiting to the cloud but not quite there yet.
