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Tape Drive is not assigned to the media server

Iwan_Tamimi
Level 6

I have 4 tape drive on media server was running fine before but one day 1 particular drive never been used anynmore by the backup. Then I check like the following: 

D:\Program Files\Veritas\Volmgr\bin>vmoprcmd -d

                                PENDING REQUESTS

                                     <NONE>

                                  DRIVE STATUS

Drv Type   Control  User      Label  RecMID  ExtMID  Ready   Wr.Enbl.  ReqId
  0 hcart    TLD               Yes   400805  400805   Yes     Yes        0
  1 hcart    TLD                -                     No       -         0
  2 hcart    TLD               Yes   401313  401313   Yes     Yes        0
  3 hcart    TLD               Yes   401200  401200   Yes     Yes        0

                             ADDITIONAL DRIVE STATUS

Drv DriveName            Shared    Assigned        Comment
  0 ESL02_Drive9          No       ebs5-bck.m1.com
  1 ESL02_Drive7          No       -
  2 ESL02_Drive8          No       ebs5-bck.m1.com
  3 ESL02_Drive10         No       ebs5-bck.m1.com

So it is not assigned to the Media server. How can I fix this?

The media server is running Windows 2008 and NetBackup version is 7.7.1. 

 

Thank you very much. 

 

Iwan 

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Marianne
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The config clearly shows 3 tape drives in robot controlled by media server ebs3-bck and 1 tape drive in robot controlled by media server ebs311bck. NetBackup did not magically change this all by itself. Someone in your environment did this - either manually or by running the device config wizard. I also noticed that scan only picked up 2 tape drives. It could be because the other 2 drives were in use. You should only proceed with changes/reconfiguration when no tape drives are in use as NBU will need to restart services. Firstly delete the remote robot 3 on this media server as well as drive ESL02_Drive7. Allow NBU to restart services on the media server. You should now be left with robot 1 and 3 tape drives on this media server. Start the Device Config wizard. Select robot control host ebs3-bck and this media server. See if the wizard picks up all 4 drives in the same robot. If so, complete the wizard and allow restart of services. If device config is good after this, double-check STU config to confirm that it is configured for 4 concurrent drives. If Device config wizard only sees 3 tape drives in robot 1 as per previous (incorrect?) config, you need to check hardware config.

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Marianne
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Please show output of these commands on the media server: scan tpconfig -l

Michael_G_Ander
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Do you storage unit(s) have 4 tape drives all together ?

Is the tape drive OK in library interface ?

The standard questions: Have you checked: 1) What has changed. 2) The manual 3) If there are any tech notes or VOX posts regarding the issue

Marianne
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There could also be a 'stuck' device allocation.

Run this command when no backups are running:

nbrbutil -ResetAll

Iwan_Tamimi
Level 6

Thanks all for the reply.

 

@Marianne

D:\Program Files\Veritas\Volmgr\bin>scan
************************************************************
*********************** SDT_TAPE    ************************
*********************** SDT_CHANGER ************************
************************************************************
------------------------------------------------------------
Device Name  : "Tape1"
Passthru Name: "Tape1"
Volume Header: ""
Port: 5; Bus: 0; Target: 0; LUN: 0
Inquiry    : "HP      Ultrium 4-SCSI  H6AW"
Vendor ID  : "HP      "
Product ID : "Ultrium 4-SCSI  "
Product Rev: "H6AW"
Serial Number: "MXP1143FHF"
WWN          : ""
WWN Id Type  : 0
Device Identifier: ""
Device Type    : SDT_TAPE
NetBackup Drive Type: 3
Removable      : Yes
Device Supports: SCSI-5
Flags : 0x0
Reason: 0x0
------------------------------------------------------------
Device Name  : "Tape3"
Passthru Name: "Tape3"
Volume Header: ""
Port: 7; Bus: 0; Target: 0; LUN: 0
Inquiry    : "HP      Ultrium 4-SCSI  H6FW"
Vendor ID  : "HP      "
Product ID : "Ultrium 4-SCSI  "
Product Rev: "H6FW"
Serial Number: "HU1024AT3F"
WWN          : ""
WWN Id Type  : 0
Device Identifier: ""
Device Type    : SDT_TAPE
NetBackup Drive Type: 3
Removable      : Yes
Device Supports: SCSI-5
Flags : 0x0
Reason: 0x0

D:\Program Files\Veritas\Volmgr\bin>tpconfig -l
Device Robot Drive       Robot                    Drive          Device
Type     Num Index  Type DrNum Status  Comment    Name           Path
robot      1    -    TLD    -       -  -          -              ebs3-bck
  drive    -    0  hcart    9      UP  -          ESL02_Drive9   {3,0,0,0}
  drive    -    2  hcart    8      UP  -          ESL02_Drive8   {6,0,0,0}
  drive    -    3  hcart   10      UP  -          ESL02_Drive10  {7,0,0,0}
robot      3    -    TLD    -       -  -          -              ebs11bck
  drive    -    1  hcart    7      UP  -          ESL02_Drive7   {5,0,0,0}

 

I will try the other command you suggest me tomorrow, because I only have downtime tomorrow, the media server is quite busy.

 

Regards,

 

iwan

Marianne
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You have 2 robots - 1 with 3 drives and another with 1 drive. This means 2 storage units. If backups and/or duplications are set for STU robot-1 then the drive in robot 3 will never be used. Hopefully you have created a STU group with both STU's? Check that all backups and/or duplications are set for STU group.

Iwan_Tamimi
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Marianne,

 

Thank you very much  for analizyng. We have 2 Tape Libraries in difference sites, actually the ESL02_Drive7 should be on the robot 1 (not 3). I think from the report the ESL02_Drive7 went to robot 3 which is not correct. Just found out according to a colleague he did delete that drive and put it back due some problem. It seems it went to other Tape Library.

So I should delete the tape and add it backup again right? I will do it by today I let you know the result.

 

Regards,

 

Iwan

Marianne
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The config clearly shows 3 tape drives in robot controlled by media server ebs3-bck and 1 tape drive in robot controlled by media server ebs311bck. NetBackup did not magically change this all by itself. Someone in your environment did this - either manually or by running the device config wizard. I also noticed that scan only picked up 2 tape drives. It could be because the other 2 drives were in use. You should only proceed with changes/reconfiguration when no tape drives are in use as NBU will need to restart services. Firstly delete the remote robot 3 on this media server as well as drive ESL02_Drive7. Allow NBU to restart services on the media server. You should now be left with robot 1 and 3 tape drives on this media server. Start the Device Config wizard. Select robot control host ebs3-bck and this media server. See if the wizard picks up all 4 drives in the same robot. If so, complete the wizard and allow restart of services. If device config is good after this, double-check STU config to confirm that it is configured for 4 concurrent drives. If Device config wizard only sees 3 tape drives in robot 1 as per previous (incorrect?) config, you need to check hardware config.

Iwan_Tamimi
Level 6

Marianne, 

 

Yes someone ( a colleague) change the configuration, I think from the last reboot somehow the Windows could not see the tape drive, then he tried to delete and put it back, somehow it went wrong. 

I follow your advice, Now it is working fine. Thank you very much!

 

Regards, 

Iwan