Re: [Veritas-bu] Identify drives in use
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Marianu, Jonathan wrote:
Here is a possible answer to your problem.
I have a script that combines these commands into a more condense
version but here I broke it into several logical commands to make it
easier to understand.
This command provides a list of the TLD robots defined on the control
host
tpconfig -d | sed s/,// | awk '/robotic path/{print $5}'
Once you have the path to the L700 run this command
echo s d | tldtest -r /dev/PATH_TO_L700 /tmp/foo
Redirect that output to a file and filter out the non relevant
information then redirect that to a file.
cat /tmp/foo | egrep ^drive|^Source address|^Barcode | sed s/\)//g
/tmp/foo2
Run the following awk command against the output and it will list all
drives in use, the MEDIAID and the original SLOT# so that ops will know
not to put a tape in that slot.
awk '/yes/{DRIVE=$2; getline; SLOT=$6; getline; MEDIAID=$3; print DRIVE,
MEDIAID, SLOT}' /tmp/foo2
Please let me know if this was helpful.
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You should use tpconfig -dl because from NetBackup 5.x - 6.x the
formatting will change.
Justin.
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Identify drives in use
On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Dave Markham wrote: Netbackup 5.0MP7 Solaris9 Anyone know how to identify from command line what drives are in use, or what tapes are in use while a job is running. We have an issue where ops keep opening the jukebox and changing tapes while jobs are running. The job is fine as the L700 library just suspends writes but the problem is they fill slots up which are destination slots of tapes in use. Once the tapes have finished and a new tape is required to continue the job the old tape cannot be put back into its slot as it has some tape in it. I therefore sometimes need to manually move the tapes to another slot using robtest. Issue is a lot of the time the backup job is still running and i dont want to unload the tapes in use so i need to identify them. I have been using iostat -xnd 2 10 |grep rmt and seeing which are written to and then double checking with the gui the tape ids, but i'd like a nice netbackup command to just say tapes being written to at that moment in time. Cheers ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu How to see what drives are in use? vmoprcmd -d ds ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Identify drives in use
Justin Piszcz wrote: On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Dave Markham wrote: Netbackup 5.0MP7 Solaris9 Anyone know how to identify from command line what drives are in use, or what tapes are in use while a job is running. We have an issue where ops keep opening the jukebox and changing tapes while jobs are running. The job is fine as the L700 library just suspends writes but the problem is they fill slots up which are destination slots of tapes in use. Once the tapes have finished and a new tape is required to continue the job the old tape cannot be put back into its slot as it has some tape in it. I therefore sometimes need to manually move the tapes to another slot using robtest. Issue is a lot of the time the backup job is still running and i dont want to unload the tapes in use so i need to identify them. I have been using iostat -xnd 2 10 |grep rmt and seeing which are written to and then double checking with the gui the tape ids, but i'd like a nice netbackup command to just say tapes being written to at that moment in time. Cheers ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu How to see what drives are in use? vmoprcmd -d ds Thanks. Problem with this command is it shows tapes in all the drives due to the problem i mentioned in my mail. Tapes are in drives due to not being able to move back to destination slots. I need to confirm the drives which are in use for the current job(s) running. Normally its just one job running see and as im using ITC 2 drives will be in use. I need to determine these so i can then safely move tapes out of the other drives. Cheers ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Identify drives in use
If NetBackup can't move a tape back from the drive to its slot, it will down the drive (at least in our environment - as the OS is Solaris will log a message to /var/adm/messages). We used to have a small robot where the OPs manually changed tapes by opening the robot up moving tapes. As part of the script that told them what to do I used tldtest to check which slots the tapes in the drives came from, and make sure those slots were kept free. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Markham Sent: 05 June 2007 11:16 To: Justin Piszcz Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Identify drives in use Justin Piszcz wrote: On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Dave Markham wrote: Netbackup 5.0MP7 Solaris9 Anyone know how to identify from command line what drives are in use, or what tapes are in use while a job is running. We have an issue where ops keep opening the jukebox and changing tapes while jobs are running. The job is fine as the L700 library just suspends writes but the problem is they fill slots up which are destination slots of tapes in use. Once the tapes have finished and a new tape is required to continue the job the old tape cannot be put back into its slot as it has some tape in it. I therefore sometimes need to manually move the tapes to another slot using robtest. Issue is a lot of the time the backup job is still running and i dont want to unload the tapes in use so i need to identify them. I have been using iostat -xnd 2 10 |grep rmt and seeing which are written to and then double checking with the gui the tape ids, but i'd like a nice netbackup command to just say tapes being written to at that moment in time. Cheers ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu How to see what drives are in use? vmoprcmd -d ds Thanks. Problem with this command is it shows tapes in all the drives due to the problem i mentioned in my mail. Tapes are in drives due to not being able to move back to destination slots. I need to confirm the drives which are in use for the current job(s) running. Normally its just one job running see and as im using ITC 2 drives will be in use. I need to determine these so i can then safely move tapes out of the other drives. Cheers ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu - Egg is a trading name of the Egg group of companies which includes: Egg plc (reg no 2448340), Egg Financial Intermediation Ltd (reg no 3828289), and Egg Banking plc (reg no 2999842). Egg Banking plc and Egg Financial Intermediation Ltd are authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and are entered in the FSA register under numbers 205621 and 309551 respectively. These members of the Egg group are registered in England and Wales. Registered office: Citigroup Centre, Canada Square, London E14 5LB. This e-mail is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail and have received it in error, please return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete it from your mailbox. Internet e-mails are not necessarily secure. The Egg group of companies do not accept responsibility for changes made to this message after it was sent. Whilst all reasonable care has been taken to avoid the transmission of viruses, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that the onward transmission, opening or use of this message and any attachments will not adversely affect its systems or data. No responsibility is accepted by the Egg group of companies in this regard and the recipient should carry out such virus and other checks as it considers appropriate. This communication does not create or modify any contract. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Identify drives in use
This may not be the answer you're looking for, but why not lock the door, and have ops use the CAP? The L700 has a 20 cart CAP, and I believe you can add an optional additional 20 cart CAP. 40 carts at a time ain't to bad. Paul -- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Markham Sent: June 5, 2007 5:25 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Identify drives in use We have an issue where ops keep opening the jukebox and changing tapes while jobs are running. The job is fine as the L700 library just suspends writes but the problem is they fill slots up which are destination slots of tapes in use. Once the tapes have finished and a new tape is required to continue the job the old tape cannot be put back into its slot as it has some tape in it. La version française suit le texte anglais. This email may contain privileged and/or confidential information, and the Bank of Canada does not waive any related rights. Any distribution, use, or copying of this email or the information it contains by other than the intended recipient is unauthorized. If you received this email in error please delete it immediately from your system and notify the sender promptly by email that you have done so. Le présent courriel peut contenir de l'information privilégiée ou confidentielle. La Banque du Canada ne renonce pas aux droits qui s'y rapportent. Toute diffusion, utilisation ou copie de ce courriel ou des renseignements qu'il contient par une personne autre que le ou les destinataires désignés est interdite. Si vous recevez ce courriel par erreur, veuillez le supprimer immédiatement et envoyer sans délai à l'expéditeur un message électronique pour l'aviser que vous avez éliminé de votre ordinateur toute copie du courriel reçu. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Identify drives in use
On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Dave Markham wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Dave Markham wrote: Netbackup 5.0MP7 Solaris9 Anyone know how to identify from command line what drives are in use, or what tapes are in use while a job is running. We have an issue where ops keep opening the jukebox and changing tapes while jobs are running. The job is fine as the L700 library just suspends writes but the problem is they fill slots up which are destination slots of tapes in use. Once the tapes have finished and a new tape is required to continue the job the old tape cannot be put back into its slot as it has some tape in it. I therefore sometimes need to manually move the tapes to another slot using robtest. Issue is a lot of the time the backup job is still running and i dont want to unload the tapes in use so i need to identify them. I have been using iostat -xnd 2 10 |grep rmt and seeing which are written to and then double checking with the gui the tape ids, but i'd like a nice netbackup command to just say tapes being written to at that moment in time. Cheers ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu How to see what drives are in use? vmoprcmd -d ds Thanks. Problem with this command is it shows tapes in all the drives due to the problem i mentioned in my mail. Tapes are in drives due to not being able to move back to destination slots. I need to confirm the drives which are in use for the current job(s) running. Normally its just one job running see and as im using ITC 2 drives will be in use. I need to determine these so i can then safely move tapes out of the other drives. Cheers I therefore sometimes need to manually move the tapes to another slot using robtest. Issue is a lot of the time the backup job is still running and i dont want to unload the tapes in use so i need to identify them. Read more closely, that is your problem! If you do not re-inventory in NetBackup -AND/OR- you put the tape in a slot that was already kept vacant for a tape that's in the drive, you're going to have problems. Justin. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Identify drives in use
I have to agree, the issue is that they are opening the robot. There is a reason that the CAP was created. Just insert the tapes into to the CAP and run an inventory of the robot with the option to empty the cap marked. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 9:18 AM To: Dave Markham Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Identify drives in use On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Dave Markham wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Dave Markham wrote: Netbackup 5.0MP7 Solaris9 Anyone know how to identify from command line what drives are in use, or what tapes are in use while a job is running. We have an issue where ops keep opening the jukebox and changing tapes while jobs are running. The job is fine as the L700 library just suspends writes but the problem is they fill slots up which are destination slots of tapes in use. Once the tapes have finished and a new tape is required to continue the job the old tape cannot be put back into its slot as it has some tape in it. I therefore sometimes need to manually move the tapes to another slot using robtest. Issue is a lot of the time the backup job is still running and i dont want to unload the tapes in use so i need to identify them. I have been using iostat -xnd 2 10 |grep rmt and seeing which are written to and then double checking with the gui the tape ids, but i'd like a nice netbackup command to just say tapes being written to at that moment in time. Cheers ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu How to see what drives are in use? vmoprcmd -d ds Thanks. Problem with this command is it shows tapes in all the drives due to the problem i mentioned in my mail. Tapes are in drives due to not being able to move back to destination slots. I need to confirm the drives which are in use for the current job(s) running. Normally its just one job running see and as im using ITC 2 drives will be in use. I need to determine these so i can then safely move tapes out of the other drives. Cheers I therefore sometimes need to manually move the tapes to another slot using robtest. Issue is a lot of the time the backup job is still running and i dont want to unload the tapes in use so i need to identify them. Read more closely, that is your problem! If you do not re-inventory in NetBackup -AND/OR- you put the tape in a slot that was already kept vacant for a tape that's in the drive, you're going to have problems. Justin. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Identify drives in use
Two ways to obtain a list of all tape drives logically in use by media servers across a netbackup environment: 1 vmdareq (not always accurate) 2. bpstulist (to obtain a list of media servers) vmoprcmd -h $MEDIA_SERVER_NAME -xdraw The output provides a list of all drives in use. To obtain a list of what drives are physically loaded use a tool that queries the library directly. If the robot is a TLD use tldtest as shown below: echo s d | tldtest -r $ROBOT_DEVICE_NAME You can obtain the robotic device name by typing robtest and choosing the robot. Be sure to exit out of robtest because the tldd process can not control the arm while you are in and you will end up with Status 52 mount failures. __ Jonathan Marianu (mah ree ah' nu) National Enterprise Backup Restore ATT/Cingular (360) 597-6896 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Identify drives in use
Jonathan, I like the : vmoprcmd -h $MEDIA_SERVER_NAME -xdraw But on NB6 this command is better for listing media servers: nbemmcmd -listhost Cheers, Dom -Original Message- From: Marianu, Jonathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 6 June 2007 5:00 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Identify drives in use Two ways to obtain a list of all tape drives logically in use by media servers across a netbackup environment: 1 vmdareq (not always accurate) 2. bpstulist (to obtain a list of media servers) vmoprcmd -h $MEDIA_SERVER_NAME -xdraw The output provides a list of all drives in use. To obtain a list of what drives are physically loaded use a tool that queries the library directly. If the robot is a TLD use tldtest as shown below: echo s d | tldtest -r $ROBOT_DEVICE_NAME You can obtain the robotic device name by typing robtest and choosing the robot. Be sure to exit out of robtest because the tldd process can not control the arm while you are in and you will end up with Status 52 mount failures. __ Jonathan Marianu (mah ree ah' nu) National Enterprise Backup Restore ATT/Cingular (360) 597-6896 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
