08-23-2012 05:50 AM
Hi
I have been trying to fix the below error for NDMP backups. Any help would be appreciated. The drive paths keeps going down. No changes have been made recently. It was working fine before and suddenly giving lot of issues.
Here is the error.
Error nbjm (pid=5113) NBU status: 2009, EMM status: All compatible drive paths are down, but media is available
All compatible drive paths are down but media is available (2009)
Thanks
Sai
08-23-2012 07:04 AM
Are the drives connected directly to your NDMP server or a media server?
Have you checked the system logs? If not, have a look and see what is reported at the time when the drive paths go down.
How many drives are affected?
08-23-2012 07:12 AM
Sounds like a direct drive connection issue - though is does say that the drives are DOWN which indicates that they exist but are actually down
What can you see in Device Monitor for the drives? If any of then or their paths are in a down state then UP them
08-23-2012 10:34 AM
Yes the drives are connected directly to NDMP.
I checked the system logs and i see the following errors.
ioctl error on Drive4 (device 0, /dev/nst0) thru sg driver, Success
2 drives are affected and those are the 2 drives that's connected to that array.
08-23-2012 10:38 AM
The path keeps going down when it's in use. I tried bringing them up again but it does the same thing.
08-23-2012 11:11 AM
Check if tapes are not stucked in tape drives ?
08-24-2012 01:28 AM
If these drives are in a library controlled by another host (media server) then run robtest from the media server to see if anything is in the drives - that should tell you also which slots they came from so that you can check if those slots are empty
I have seen a lot of drives stuck going down due to incorrect tape loading procedures if a slot gets filled that belongs to a tape in the drive
If you find that then move the tapes from the drives to a free slot and update the inventory in NetBackup after which you should be able to UP the drives
Also check the library web GUI (if it has one) to see if that is reporting anything.
08-30-2012 07:31 AM
I found out that the fibre cable attached to tape drives was disconnected from switch, so we connected the cable again. We see the fibre logging in the switch. I rediscovered the tape drives on the server. Now I see the tape drives listed in the scan command output but I still see error in the gui. When I try to up the path, it says, unknown drive name. Any help would be appreciated.
08-30-2012 07:43 AM
Re-run the device wizard to re-discover them correctly - if the fibres are now swapped around the paths will have changed
The device config wizard will update the paths
Also remeber to refresh the Admin Console and do the UP from the device monitor section and not in activity monitor
08-30-2012 08:32 AM
I re-ran the device wizard and everything seems to be working right but one of the path is still down. I also rebooted the library. I am getting below NDMP error when i try to run the NDMP backup.
Error bptm (pid=28419) cannot open ndmp device c64t0l0, error code 7 (NDMP_IO_ERR)
08-30-2012 08:42 AM
Is anything getting logged on the filer - can it see the drives?
Not sure what filer you have but each one has various commands that can be run to scan its devices
08-30-2012 10:13 AM
We have EMC NS480 connected for NDMP backups. Can you let me know what are the commands to check in the filer.
08-31-2012 06:21 AM
See commands in EMC Cellera section of the NDMP Appliance Information
tpautoconf -verify celerra_host
to verify connectivity
To verify devices:
tpautoconf -probe celerra_host
Ask your NAS admin to check system logs for errors.
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