Multiple Queries

[H_Sharma]

Hello Experts,

Pls answer the following queries.

1:- We have many backups that fails with 196 errors. Due to some reasons we can not extend the time window. So is there a way as soon as backup fails with 196 error it starts automatically. We have job retry for other backups but dont know about 196?

2:- difference between vmoprcmd -reset & nbrbutil -reset_all?

3:- We have 2 media servers and media sharing is not allowed. We are planning to enable unrestricted media sharing between these two media servers. So my quetion is if we enable this option does it start sharing media with older one as well or we need to execute bpmedia -movedb oldserver newserver -m media id for each old tapes?

Thanks,

[Yasuhisa_Ishika · Accepted solution]

1. No such configuration and settings with which jobs failded by closing start window retries as soon as it failed. To initiate jobs by builtin scheduler, start window must be opened.

2. "vmoprcmd -reset" affect tape drive as below, but  do nothing against nbrb.

By vmoprcmd pages in Command Reference:

-reset Resets the specified drive. Also, it unloads the drive(if not assignedin the EMM database). You can use the unload capability to unload the media that is stuck in the drive.

Whereas, "nbrbutil -reset_all" resets resource allocation information, but does not affect to tape drives.

3. If I remember right, media that is already allocated has owned by each media server, and does not shared.

[Marianne · Accepted solution]

1. Status 196 is because jobs were queued while the backup window was open bacause of lack of resources. It automatically keeps on looking for resources (retry). If it could not go active before the window closed, it fails with 196. To know which 'resources ' the job was waiting for, look in job details. 2) vmoprcmd command sends scsi command to tape drive to rewind and eject tape. nbrbutil works at logical layer with NBU assignment of resources (media, drives, policy, client, etc). Look at nbrbutil -dump during active jobs to see all assignments. Reset_all will release all of these assignments. 3) IMHO existing media will also be shared. You are in best position to test and tell us.