10-26-2012 12:50 AM
I had a query on vault...My Master Server is 6.5
below is vault picking list:
105990 - Picking List
MEDIA SLOTID LAST MOUNT LAST SID REQUESTED DENSITY CATEGORY
DA0037 114 10/18/2012 482 10/24/2012 HCART3 NBU
DA0093 119 10/18/2012 482 10/24/2012 HCART3 NBU
DA0389 308 10/19/2012 482 10/24/2012 HCART3 NBU
DA0407 311 10/19/2012 482 10/24/2012 HCART3 NBU
DA0462 317 10/20/2012 482 10/24/2012 HCART3 NBU
DA0471 323 10/20/2012 482 10/24/2012 HCART3 NBU
DA0672 129 10/17/2012 482 10/24/2012 HCART3 NBU
DA0749 338 10/21/2012 482 10/24/2012 HCART3 NBU
DA0792 136 10/17/2012 482 10/24/2012 HCART3 NBU
DA0843 138 10/18/2012 482 10/24/2012 HCART3 NBU
DA1060 351 10/21/2012 482 10/24/2012 HCART3 NBU
Now here i would like to know the FULL Media ID which should have suufix L1 or L2 or L3
There is one more Master Server which is showing the full Media Id with suffix....
105546 NBU3 AILTO 001 - Vault
SLOTID MEDIA ASSIGNED EXPIRATION CATEGORY
2 GD0095L2 10/17/2011 10/15/2012 NBU
4 GD0106L2 09/05/2012 10/05/2012 NBU
6 GD0021L2 03/26/2012 03/25/2013 NBU
7 GD0060L2 10/31/2011 10/29/2012 NBU
8 GD0218L2 09/25/2011 09/24/2012 NBU
9 GD0051L2 08/25/2012 09/24/2012 NBU
Please help me
10-26-2012 01:05 AM
vm.conf file
MM_SERVER_NAME = xxxx.ccc.att.com
VERBOSE
MEDIA_ID_BARCODE_CHARS = 0 8 1:2:3:4:5:6
10-26-2012 01:37 AM
This is caused by the rule :
MEDIA_ID_BARCODE_CHARS = 0 8 1:2:3:4:5:6
NBU has been told to use the first 6 characters of the barcode for the media id.
I presume that the library shows the barcode as DA1060xx (xx = L1/ 2/ 3). If the llibrary only displays the first 6 characters of the barcode, this would be as additionaly problem which will cause issues if you change it.
NBU can only have 6 characters as the media ID, this cannot be increased.
Your option is to have the first 6 or last 6 characters of the barcode so ... if the bacode is :
DA1060L4 you could have the media id as
DA1060 or 1060L4
BUT
As you have tapes with data with the first 6 chatracters of the barcode as the media id, I woulod leave it. You cannot change the media id of an assigned volume (tape with data on it) and you do nbot want to end up with some tapes with one format of media id, and some tapes with another format - this would not be recommended.
barcodes/ media ids need to be sorted out when an environment is designed. They should not be changed after the environment has gone live.
Martin
10-26-2012 01:47 AM
I agree with your point but my question is Why its showing GD0051L2 on another Master Server... though 6 charater are defined.....
10-26-2012 05:43 AM
On both master servers do you actaully see the full barcode shown for the tapes?
Some tape libraries default to short barcodes and so NetBackup never actually sees the full barcode
If this is the case you could change the configuration of the library but would then need to change the barcode of every tape within NetBackup!
10-26-2012 08:42 AM
What is the source of the second report, the one that shows 8 characters for "MEDIA"? It's in a different format that the Vault Picking List. It's possible you found a report with a mis-labeled column that should read "BARCODE" instead of "MEDIA".
10-26-2012 02:29 PM
10-26-2012 08:44 PM
I have doubled checked but it seems the report is not mislabeled.
Please find the below output on which its showing suffix L2 or L3...
Distribution_List
10/26/2012 ENVIRONMENT: NBU3 UNIX SOURCE: 105546 DESTINATION: Page: 1
AL NBU3
Robot: TLD(0) Vault: LTO Profile: Production
Vendor: Iron Mountain Session ID: 1481
xxxxx_105546 NBU3 AILTO 001 - Distribution List
SLOTID MEDIA EXPIRATION IMAGES MBYTES CATEGORY EJECTED
30 GD0370L2 11/25/2012 2 5617 NBU YES
42 GD0421L2 11/25/2012 4 73348 NBU YES
176 GD0440L2 11/24/2012 5 1736 NBU YES
182 GD0043L2 11/09/2012 2 21985 New CTLG YES
TOTALS
Number of Media: 4
MBytes for all media: 102684
Image count on all media: 13
Number of images for this session: 11
MBytes for this session: 101964
Number of images not for this session: 2
@xxxx: pwd
/usr/openv/netbackup/vault/sessions/LTO/sid1481
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105546_Picking_List
10/26/2012 ENVIRONMENT: NBU3 UNIX SOURCE: 105546 DESTINATION: Page: 1
AL NBU3
Robot: TLD(0) Vault: LTO Profile: Production
Vendor: Iron Mountain Session ID: 1481
ASPRD134_105546 NBU3 AILTO 001 - Picking List
MEDIA SLOTID LAST MOUNT LAST SID REQUESTED DENSITY CATEGORY
GD0009L2 89 10/11/2012 1481 10/26/2012 HCART New CTLG
GD0271L2 52 09/24/2012 1481 10/26/2012 HCART NBU
GD0478L2 82 09/25/2012 1481 10/26/2012 HCART NBU
TOTALS
Number of Media: 3
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105546_Vault_List
10/26/2012 ENVIRONMENT: NBU3 UNIX SOURCE: 105546 DESTINATION: Page: 1
AL NBU3
Robot: TLD(0) Vault: LTO Profile: Production
Vendor: Iron Mountain Session ID: 1481
ASPRD134_105546 NBU3 AILTO 001 - Vault
SLOTID MEDIA ASSIGNED EXPIRATION CATEGORY
1 GD0027L2 10/20/2012 11/19/2012 NBU
2 GD0179L2 10/16/2012 11/17/2012 NBU
3 GD0186L2 10/18/2012 11/21/2012 NBU
4 GD0090L2 10/07/2012 11/06/2012 NBU
5 GD0078L2 10/23/2012 11/24/2012 NBU
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Please let me know if there is any suggestions...
10-26-2012 09:35 PM
The above reports are most definately using the Barcode field, not Media Id field.
As Martin's post:
NBU can only have 6 characters as the media ID, this cannot be increased.
Please do the following on both masters:
vmquery -a -w |awk '{print $1 " " $4}'
Copy & paste a couple of lines from each master server.
Col 1 is Media Id, Col 4 is Barcode.
10-26-2012 10:11 PM
Below is the output of the Master Server which is showing suffix..
@asprd134: ./vmquery -a -w |awk '{print $1 " " $4}'
media barcode
ID barcode
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GD0000 GD0000L2
GD0001 GD0001L2
GD0002 GD0002L2
GD0003 GD0003L2
GD0004 GD0004L2
GD0005 GD0005L2
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
On another Master Server
@xxxx: ./vmquery -a -w |awk '{print $1 " " $4}'
media barcode
ID barcode
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A00000 -
DF0000 DF0000L4
DF0001 DF0001L4
DF0002 DF0002L4
DF0003 DF0003L4
DF0004 DF0004L4
DF0005 DF0005L4
DF0006 DF0006L4
DF0007 DF0007L4
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Not able to see any difference....
10-27-2012 12:40 AM
You can see that Media Id is 6 chars. Barcode field is 8 chars.
One master server displays the Media Id field and the other master displays the Barcode field.
I do not have an explanation for this - probably different NBU versions?
Check NBU and patch version on both masters:
cat /usr/openv/netbackup/version
PS: Are you aware of the fact that NBU 6.x reached EOSL 4 weeks ago?
10-27-2012 02:29 AM
We are in the process to upgrade it to 7.0.....On both Master Server version is same 6.5.3.....
10-27-2012 10:08 PM
I have no explanation of why one master server displays the Media Id field and the other master the Barcode field....
Hopefully both servers will display same fields after the upgrade.
PS: Please rather upgrade to 7.1 or 7.5: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH74584
10-29-2012 04:38 AM
What do your vault policies have in their directives?
There was a -legacy option that could be used to display reports in the "old" format - just wondering if this has crept in somewhere along the line causing the difference, especially as the headers do look different.
Or maybe vault profile is newer than the other (one was upgraded from V5 or earlier where as the other is a fresh V6 profile?)