Tape drive serial number mismatch
Hi All,
We have one of the Oracle/Sun SL500 connected to one of our Solaris 10 media server.
We have 18 drivers in total out of which 14 are LTO3 and 4 are LTO4 drives
We recently had 9...
The simplest and what I have the safest way to manage stuff like this is:
- Delete all the old tape drives for the library in the GUI console,
- Delete the library/robot in the GUI console,
- From the Device Configuration Wizard in the GUI console rebuild the tape library
Notes
- It requires 5-10 downtime in NetBackup for a robot to be reconfigured. Sounds like it was a mess to start with an extra 10 minutes wouldn't m;matter.
- You may have to do an OS device rescan to get rid of the old stuff. Windows used to "remember" the old devices. Not sure what windows is like these days - they may have fixed this issue.
- From experience I have found - only rebuild one robot at a time. If you delete tape drives and robot rebuild one robot at time the robot number in NetBackup remains unchanged.
- The technote and other command methods are useful when you want to minimise the impact of tape drive replacement in a high volume 24x7 shop where interruptions cannot be tolerated.
