Tape drive down very often
Hi All,
We are facing the tape drive down issue very often,
we have 1 master server = linux VM
2 media server = linux stanalone machine
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If the tape drives are shared between the two media servers you need persistence binding enabled. If they shared blow away the robots and tape drives within NBU and rebuild then through GUI that should fix it until the next time you reboot a media server. Rebooting a media could mess up the order of SCSI id assigment.
If shared tape drives make sure that the drivers support SCSI reservation and it is enabled in Netbackup
Think it is default, but have seen lack of SCSI resevation awareness cause lot of problems with DOWN'ed tape drives so think it is worth checking.
