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mtimbol
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11 years ago

Virtual Tape Library Robot not detected by Netbackup

Need help. Background: We manage a Netbackup Master server which has several media servers. The media servers are at different locations and backup to a Virtual tape Library and then duplicat...
  • mtimbol's avatar
    11 years ago

    I ran \volmgr\bin\scan. The medium changer was not showing up. There was a drive that was being recognized as a changer.

    The rest of the drives showed up.

    I was told by Symantec to stop netbackup services, go to \Program Files\Veritas\Volmgr\misc and delete files with the word "lock". I found several and deleted them, rebooted the media server and that seems to have fixed the problem.  So I'm not sure if it was just the reboot or the deletion of the files below or both.

    09/23/2013  05:36 PM                16 tld.lock.MISSING_PATHCZJ22819TY.-1.-1.-1

    09/20/2013  04:33 PM                16 tld.lock.ndmp.MISSING_PATH.CZJ22819TY

    07/25/2013  04:40 AM                16 tld.lock.{4,0,5,0}.-1.-1.-1

    09/20/2013  08:34 PM                16 tldcd.lock

    09/20/2013  04:31 PM                16 vmd.lock