11-27-2013 02:22 AM
Hi All,
i m new in Netbackup,
i have 45 slots, and 45 tapes. I need to use one of old tape in my Robots. how can i tell to NEtBackup to do that.
I tried before an import, but every time i got failure saying that the tape is unmountable.
(the version in 6.5)
Thanks,
11-27-2013 02:41 AM
in that old tape what data is there?
11-27-2013 02:42 AM
Article:TECH43584 | | | Created: 2005-01-14 | | | Updated: 2013-04-15 | | | Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH43584 |
11-27-2013 02:45 AM
Full tape? As in FULL of valid, unexpired images?
When you say 'old' tapes - are these tapes that were written by older tape drives that have been replaced with new drives? (e.g. LTO3 tapes and now LTO4 drives)
Please bear in mind that although the media can be read or written by newer drives, NBU can ONLY mount tapes in drives if the densities/media type is the same.
So, hcart3 media can only be mounted in hcart3 drives.
hcart media can only be mounted in hcart drives.
Please show us output of the following for media that you want to reuse and drive config:
nbemmcmd -listmedia -mediaid <media-id>
(Command is in ...\veritas\netbackup\bin\admincmd)
tpconfig -l
(Command is in ...\veritas\volmgr\bin)
11-27-2013 02:55 AM
Hi All,
inn_kam : i have old Backup that i can recycle and overwrite.
Marianne :
the result of the command is
11-27-2013 04:21 AM
11-27-2013 04:25 AM
Hi Marianne,
for tpconfig -l
11-27-2013 04:52 AM
11-27-2013 06:05 AM
Thanks Marianne,
but while i have not real experience, i launch robtest, but i don't know the command line to mount/dsmount manually the tapes, if you can give it to me.
Thanks a lot
Youssef
11-27-2013 08:44 AM
See this TN:
Robtest commands that can be used to test the SCSI functionality of a robot
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH83129
So, in short - when you run robtest command, select the robot.
s s (to show all slots)
s d (show drives)
m s48 d1 (move slot 48 to drive 1)
(does it mount? Any errors? If no errors, you can unload and move tape back)
unload d1
(wait for confirmation)
m d1 s48
quit
11-28-2013 03:41 AM
Hi Marianne,
the result of moving tape from slot to drive :
11-28-2013 04:12 AM
INCOMPATIBLE MEDIUM INSTALLED
This is a message from the robot.
You need to eject the tape and physically inspect the media type printed on the tape and the label on the tape.
Check with your tape library vendor about the media compatibility of this media with the drives in the robot.
Tape libraries such as STK is very specific about which tapes it will mount in drives.
11-28-2013 08:42 AM
Hi Marianne,
while launching unload d1 :
11-28-2013 08:49 AM
Hi Marianne,
but the probleme that the Backup works before with tose media
Any change in Robot or Medias :(
Thank you
Youssef
11-28-2013 11:57 AM
You need to eject the tape to see what is wrong with it.
I cannot tell you why the robot (NOT NBU) is refusing to mount the tape.
Maybe the target on the slot came loose, may the barcode got damaged somehow.
Please examine the slot where the tape is and then take the tape out and see if you can see anything wrong.
11-28-2013 01:08 PM