What kind of HBA are you using in the client machine ? What is the tape library ?
Has LAN-free ever worked on this node, or has it just gone wrong recently ? If you say the backups are now going to a disk pool, then the mgnt class for those files are not pointed at a tape pool. Apart from the drive mappings, you have to point the the LAN-free client at a stg pool that is accessable directly over the SAN. ie the tape or a SANergy disk pool. If you are using a Qlogic HBA in Windows 2000, sometimes new machines entering the SAN fabric can change the device name the ADSMSCSI driver see the tapes as. Check the "mtx.x.x.x" names on the stg agent machine are the same as you have mapped. Also with Qlogic, W2k can lose sight of the tape drives if other machines are rebooted on the SAN. Lastly if you started the stg agent, then defined all the drive maps to it, I've seen that the stg agent doesn't always pick this up right away. Try stop/starting the stg agent to pick up the mapping conf. Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Cascanette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 7:53 PM Subject: LAN Free backups I am having some problems with the LAN Free backups. Server is 4.2.1.12 (Windows 2000), client is 4.2.1.20, SAN client is installed and I guess setup. I see the node in question connecting to the TSM Server (under q ses I can see the node and its session type is server). When I launch the client it does not give me a "LANFree path failed. Using LAN Path" anymore. I have mapped all the drives to this server to use. Is there something missing?. When the backups start no tape is loaded, it goes to the storage pool (unless it is over 500Megs which goes directly to tape). This is also causing a problem when I try to restore to the original location for this SAN attached server - File is unavailable to the server. So I need to launch the client (login as this node) on another machine and save the files to a different location. TSM server is connected to the library via fibre switch. All nodes for LAN free backups are connected to this fibre switch and are able to see all the drives in the TSM admin GUI. The service "TSM StorageAgent1" is created and is running. Thanks for any help Joe --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.330 / Virus Database: 184 - Release Date: 28/2/2002
