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Netbackup/Tape Robot Issues

Seonix
Level 3

Hi,

We've been having some issues with our robot/tape drive and I've exhausted all ideas as to how to resolve it.

All our backups are failing because the jobs stall due to having to wait for the drive to be ready ("Drives are in use in storage unit").

I've rebooted the server, rebooted the robot, run the netbackup diags on the drive, re-inventoried the robot, run robtest and nothing seems to do the trick.

Rob test returns sense code 0x83 for every slot. On examination of the Application Event Logs, I'm getting "barcode questionable for slot ##" for every slot in the robot. We've never used barcodes on the tapes. I'm using Netbackup 7.1.0.4.

I've officially run out of ideas and would greatly appreciate any suggestions.

Regards,

Seonix

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Marianne
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Orphaned MDS allocation for a tape which also reserves a drive by default. Use the following to clear all: nbrbutil -reset_all (Please double check nbrbutil options with -help - I'm not close to a system or manual to check...)

 

***EDIT****

nbrbutil -resetall
(Thanks Martin!)

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Marianne
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Please post output of the following: vmoprcmd -d nbrbutil -dump

Seonix
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Hi Marianne,

Output of vmoprcmd -d:

PENDING REQUESTS

                                     <NONE>

                                  DRIVE STATUS

Drv Type   Control  User      Label  RecMID  ExtMID  Ready   Wr.Enbl.  ReqId
  0 hcart2   TLD                -                     No       -         0

                             ADDITIONAL DRIVE STATUS

Drv DriveName            Shared    Assigned        Comment
  0 IBM.ULT3580-HH5.000   No       -

 

Output of nbrbutil -dump:

Allocation Requests
(AllocationRequestSeq )


Allocations
(AllocationSeq )

MDS allocations in EMM:

        MdsAllocation: allocationKey=282 jobType=16 mediaKey=4000001 mediaId=A00
000 driveKey=0 driveName= drivePath= stuName= masterServerName=<our server>
mediaServerName=<our server> ndmpTapeServerName= diskVolumeKey=0 mou
ntKey=0 linkKey=0 fatPipeKey=0 scsiResType=0 serverStateFlags=0

 

Thanks in advance,

Simon

Marianne
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Orphaned MDS allocation for a tape which also reserves a drive by default. Use the following to clear all: nbrbutil -reset_all (Please double check nbrbutil options with -help - I'm not close to a system or manual to check...)

 

***EDIT****

nbrbutil -resetall
(Thanks Martin!)

mph999
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It's nbrbutil -resetall ....

;o)

M

 

Marianne
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Thanks Martin!!

I see -help says:
-resetAll

I was also thinking of
nbrbutil -releaseMDS <allocation key>

nbrbutil -releaseMDS 282

Seonix
Level 3

nbrbutil -resetall did the job.

Thanks all. Very much appreciated ;)

mph999
Level 6
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Indeed help says resetAll, but strangly, even on Unix, resetall works ...

 

M

Confirming... nbrbutil -resetall done the trick...