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Darren_Dunham · 07-23-2014

I have a media server that has changed from "Active for Tape and Disk" to simply "Active for Disk". Jobs that get scheduled for it stall on "waiting for media" (even if the media is disk). A reboot of the media server didn't magically clear anythin...

Darren_Dunham · 10-22-2013

If I run "mountvol", it will show me the volumes that I can map to a drive letter or to a path. But it only gives me a windows drive ID. How do I map this ID to a specific running volume? I can't give the storage foundation path to the volume, it...

Darren_Dunham · 04-26-2013

I have a standard Scratch pool that is populating all my normal volume pools. So when a volume expires, it returns to the Scratch pool. I have a small number of tapes that I would like to have special handling. When they expire, I want them to go t...

Darren_Dunham · 08-06-2012

I'm trying to do the logical equivalent of "update this NDMP host's password on all media servers", but via CLI. It looks like "tpconfig -update -nh <host> ..." only applies to a specific media server. Is there an equivalent?

Darren_Dunham · 03-07-2011

I have some tools I wrote that trawl through "bpdbjobs -all_columns -jobid <jobid>" to pull out the writing speed over the course of the job. This lets me graph it and see how things are going. (I have a lot of netapps that when they do NDMP incre...

Darren_Dunham · 07-23-2014

That particular article appears to focus on the network connectivity (and the name resolution associated) for media servers. This particular media server hasn't had any changes, and I've confirmed that all the names of the interfaces are being resol...

Darren_Dunham · 10-23-2013

Righto! My Windows-fu is limited. Thank you for that! I had been looking for the mapping in vxprint, but the volumes themselves don't have anything like a GUID. There is one on the plex, but I'm not going to mount that.

Darren_Dunham · 05-01-2013

Sometimes, yes it is. Equipment fails, things break, etc.. # vmquery -b -rn 0 | awk '{print $8}' | sort -n | tail 531 536 567 633 854 870 1416 2384 2397 2435

Darren_Dunham · 04-26-2013

Can you explain why you want to handle a small number of media special - maybe there is a workaround from someone in the community. I want to take media that are above a certain number of mounts and move them to a pool that will be used for longe...

Darren_Dunham · 04-26-2013

What you can do is to move all empty "special handling" tapes to their backup pool so when the tape is expired it will not go to the scratch and create a script that check for these tapes and move them to a specific volume pool. The problem is ...

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Media server not active for tape.

Mapping "mountvol" ID to specific volume

Can the "previous volume pool" field be modified?

CLI equivalent for NDMP credential update?

Verbose output truncated in bpdbjobs -all_columns?

That particular article

Righto! My Windows-fu is

Sometimes, yes it is.

Can you explain why you want

What you can do is to move