Reconfiguring Tape Library Partitions
I recently took over admin duties at a company running Backup Exec 2010 using a Dell TL4000 tape library with two drives and 44 tape slots. The previous admin is gone but left the TL4000 partitioned with5 partitions. The first two each have one slot, the next two have three each and the remaining slots (9 through 44) are in the last partition. I need to change this configuration but I'm wondering what effect the changes would have on existing jobs that use the current configuration...will they update automatically? I don't want to make any precipitous changes that could cause problems. Any help would be greatly appreciated.Solved1.5KViews0likes7CommentsBE 2012 - After migration, storage pools but no storage devices
Migrated our BE 2012 server using the steps in the article below. We moved from a Win2K8 R2 Enterprise OS to Win2K8 R2Standard OS for licensing reasons. Everything seemed to migrate successfully except for the storage devices which are simply network drives/shares. In the BE console on the new BE server, the storage pools, that were on the old BE server, are there and the properties of the storage pools show the related storage devices. The problem is that the storage devices do not show up as individual devices on the storage tab of the BE console, so I cannot edit the properties or even use them with the migrated backup jobs. I tried renaming the old BE server and taking it offline, then renaming the new BE server to the old BE server name, but I could not log into BE using the old or new name after that. I put the new name back into place so now I'm back at square one again. I thought about just configuring new storage devices with new names but I'm concerned about how that will affect my ability to restore existing backed up data that is on these drives. Ideally, I would like to get some help on how I can get this migrated BE server to recognize the storage devices again. https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.TECH129826.html Thank You, RA914Views0likes3Commentsoprd returned abnormal status (96)
Hi, I am not able to get media manager daemons after bouncing Netbackup Daemons. And i got this error #./vmoprcmd -d oprd returned abnormal status (96) IPC Error: Daemon may not be running Logs of daemon & reqlib & ltid as below:- Ltid:- 01:21:23.746 [23332] <4> CheckShutdownWhileInit: Pid=1, Data.Pid=25157, Type=100, Param1=0, Param2=-5056, LongParam=-23490544 01:21:24.281 [23332] <16> InitLtidDeviceInfo: Drive DLT8000-01 is ACTIVE 01:21:24.281 [23332] <16> InitLtidDeviceInfo: Drive DLT8000-02 is ACTIVE 01:21:24.281 [23332] <16> InitLtidDeviceInfo: Drive DLT8000-03 is ACTIVE 01:21:24.281 [23332] <16> InitLtidDeviceInfo: Drive DLT8000-06 is ACTIVE 01:21:24.282 [23332] <16> InitLtidDeviceInfo: Drive DLT8000-07 is ACTIVE 01:21:24.282 [23332] <16> InitLtidDeviceInfo: Drive DLT8000-08 is ACTIVE 01:21:24.282 [23332] <16> InitLtidDeviceInfo: Drive DLT8000-10 is ACTIVE 01:21:24.282 [23332] <16> InitLtidDeviceInfo: Drive DLT8000-12 is ACTIVE 01:21:24.282 [23332] <16> InitLtidDeviceInfo: Drive IBM_ULTRIUM2_Drv07 is ACTIVE reqlib:- 01:00:01.207 [23580] <2> EndpointSelector::select_endpoint: performing call with the only endpt available!(Endpoint_Selector.cpp:431) 01:00:01.220 [23580] <2> EndpointSelector::select_endpoint: performing call with the only endpt available!(Endpoint_Selector.cpp:431) 01:01:40.430 [23805] <4> vmoprcmd: INITIATING 01:01:40.488 [23805] <2> vmoprcmd: argv[0] = vmoprcmd 01:01:40.488 [23805] <2> vmoprcmd: argv[1] = -d 01:01:40.488 [23805] <2> vmdb_start_oprd: received request to start oprd, nosig = yes 01:01:40.527 [23805] <2> vnet_vnetd_service_socket: vnet_vnetd.c.2046: VN_REQUEST_SERVICE_SOCKET: 6 0x00000006 01:01:40.527 [23805] <2> vnet_vnetd_service_socket: vnet_vnetd.c.2060: service: vmd 01:01:40.623 [23805] <2> getrequestack: server response to request: REQUEST ACKNOWLEDGED 650 01:01:40.649 [23805] <2> getrequeststatus: server response: EXIT_STATUS 0 01:01:40.649 [23805] <4> vmdb_start_oprd: vmdb_start_oprd request status: successful (0) 01:02:57.220 [23805] <2> wait_oprd_ready: oprd response: EXIT_STATUS 278 01:02:57.221 [23805] <2> put_string: cannot write data to network: Broken pipe (32) 01:02:57.221 [23805] <16> send_string: unable to send data to socket: Broken pipe (32), stat=-5 Deamon:- 01:07:42.537 [24144] <4> rdevmi: INITIATING 01:07:42.537 [24144] <2> mm_getnodename: cached_hostname tcppapp001, cached_method 3 01:07:42.583 [24144] <2> mm_ncbp_gethostname: GetNBUName <tcppapp001-bip> 01:07:42.583 [24144] <2> mm_getnodename: (5) hostname tcppapp001-bip (from mm_ncbp_gethostname) 01:07:42.584 [24144] <2> rdevmi: got CONTINUE, connecting to ltid 01:08:02.755 [24098] <16> oprd: device management error: IPC Error: Daemon may not be running 01:08:03.241 [23355] <2> vmd: TCP_NODELAY 01:08:03.242 [23355] <4> peer_hostname: Connection from host tcppvmg265-bip, 172.16.6.7, port 6735 01:08:03.335 [23355] <4> process_request: client requested command=43, version=4 01:08:03.335 [23355] <4> process_request: START_OPRD requested 01:08:03.369 [23355] <4> start_oprd: /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/oprd, pid=24164 01:08:03.638 [23355] <2> vmd: TCP_NODELAY 01:08:03.638 [23355] <4> peer_hostname: Connection from host tcppvmg265-bip, 172.16.6.7, port 18394 01:08:03.685 [23355] <4> process_request: client requested command=43, version=4 01:08:03.685 [23355] <4> process_request: START_OPRD requested Please help me out how toget rid of this issue and what is this issue about.4.7KViews1like8CommentsDisk backups - automatic removal of expired files
I have a large disk storage that I do my backup to disk on then from there, backup to tape. I have an expiration date of 5 days. Question, what program does this cleanup and why does it work sometime and not other times?? Also, is there a place that you can set this program to run (specific date)? Thanks much CathySolved2.3KViews1like9CommentsNetbackup AIR - restricting REPLICATION jobs
I have a situuation whereby the link between two NBU sites / domains has been inactive for some time, and the link has now been upgraded and is available again. I suspended secondary operations on the SLP's in the primary site during this period, and as a result now have a couple of thousand images awaiting replication to the secondary site. Before I re-enable the secondary operations on the SLP's I want to ensure that I don't have hundreds of replicaton jobs starting at once, as I have seen this in the past and the system becomes unresponsive. How can I limit the amount of replication jobs that will be submitted as I want to limit this to a manageable number (say 20 concurrent). I know I can limit the amount of streams on the Storage Server / Disk Pool, but I am afraid that the replications will all kick in and the backups will not have any available streams to work with. Bottom line - I want to continue to allow my backups to run but also have a limited number of replication jobs running concurrently allongside them. Any input appreciated. AJ5.9KViews0likes13Commentsnew media servers not showing in Storage Unit selection list
Hi, We're on Netbackup 7.5 using Data Domain storage. Master server is Windows 2008. Just had 6 Unix servers installed as media servers, the DD Boost plugin has been installed and the following commands run (we have successfully setup media servers for Data Domain in exactly this way before): nbdevconfig -creatests -stype DataDomain -storage_server [data_domain_box]-media_server [media_server] tpconfig -add -storage_server [data domain box] -stype DataDomain -sts_user_id ostuser -password password I can see the new servers registered on Data Daomin in the Enterprise Manager under Data Management / DDBoost/ Activities - they are listed along with the previously enabled ones. But they are not showing up as available media servers in the Storage Units. I assume that as they have registered with data domain then dd boost must be up and active on the servers. Can anyone advise? How do I check for what's not happening but should be? Thanks4.9KViews1like11CommentsView Volume Groups From CLI
Hello, I am trying to figure out to view the contents of a particular Volume Group from the CLI? Or I would like to view what Volume Group a particular tape is assigned to? Are either of these possible or only avaliable in the GUI? Thanks DanielSolved2.4KViews0likes5CommentsSuccesful Duplicate Job not in Restore List
Hi all. I have BEX2012 with a full B2D job each week, where part of the job is also a duplicate to tape from the end of the month full B2D,which is sent to offsite storage. (I'm aware this mght not be a good method but not looking to address that now) Last month'sduplicate jobhadan issue with a bad tape so it failed. Using new tapes, I clicked on the successful end of monthB2D in the job history list, and ran anotherduplicate to tape from it. The duplicate finished successfully, however, when I tried a test restore to access the tape data, the duplicate backup instance was not listed. I treid to catalog the duplicate job running through all the tapes, but it is still not listed as a time point for a restore like all past duplicate tape jobs. How can I have this accessible/catalogued, etc? Tnx1.2KViews2likes3CommentsBackup Exec not using disk with free space in disk pool
We are using Backup Exec 10d and have it configured to backup to disk. We created a disk pool with 2 disks in it. one 255GB disk and one 1TB disk. Backups have been running fine until this past week, where they have been failing due to the smaller disk being full. As I understand it, Backup Exec should choose the disk from the pool with space on it for the backups. Is this not true? What I have done to get the backups going is disable the disk that is full, so that the only choice Backup Exec has is to choose the disk with free space on it. Any help/advice will be appreciated.3.1KViews0likes10Comments