08-04-2017 10:15 AM
Greetings!
I have configured VTL on DataDomain and assigned (1 robot,5 drives ,300 tapes) to one of media servers running Solaris 10
Configuration Wizard Succesfully completed and I have managed to create Storage Unit
In Device Monitor all drives and their paths appear as UP
When I try to make a backup it succesfully gets the media.
Then it tries to get the drive to mount it and goes through all 5 drives with this error:
Error bptm (pid=*) error requesting media, TpErrno = Invalid Drive Number
Warning bptm media id Q***** load operation reported an error
After this it gives this error:
All compatible drive paths are down but media is avaliable (2009)
After this when i enter Device Monitor tab i see that paths for particular host went down and if I try to Up them manually it gives an error "Unknown Drive Name".
I also tried to configure physical library's drives and tapes; I recieve same errors in job details and in device monitor all physical drives have the same behavior.
But All Previously configured VTL's and physical tape libraries working fine.
08-04-2017 10:45 AM
This is pretty much the same as my environment.
1. Check the OS - on the media server, run /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/scan -tape ( you should see all your tape drives. )
If you see "missing drives" - you can likely just run tpautoconf -a ( although it will require you to recycle NetBackup on your media server ). If you do not see them, you may need to check that they are added at the OS level.
2. Check NetBackup - run /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/tpautoconf -t ( you should see all your drives ). If you see them in the scan, run tpautoconf -a and it should add them in.
#. Check NetBackup again - /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/tpautoconf -report_disc ( this will show if any drives the media server has issues with )
Helpful hint - If you are duplicating to tape from the VTL, I suggest you use small VTL tapes - I use LTO3 sized to 50G tapes. Having a different HCART type from your pysical drives helps keeps them separate, and smaller tape sizes prevent those "media in use " status, where your duplications are stuck waiting for a virtual tape.
I had my VTL tapes at 200G and it was horrible.
08-04-2017 11:10 AM
08-04-2017 11:14 AM
08-09-2017 11:58 PM - edited 08-09-2017 11:59 PM
Yes, the robtest utility works fine.
I restarted the services on media server.