Re: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6
To set the record straight on this, I got a private email from a Quantum SE and this is what he said: On the PX510 (and the 502 and 506), you can either setup the library to have no CAP (load port, Import Export station, mail slots, etc), or up to 36 load port slots. The bottom left and bottom right magazines can be configured as load ports through the web interface to the library or through settings on the front control panel. When there is a CAP configured on the PX510, you should not have to take it offline to open the CAP and load/unload cartridges. In addition, while the Scalar 24 might have to come offline, the larger Scalar products (Scalar 1K, 2K, 10K) can remain online while you open the CAP. Someone else verified that STK libraries also don't have to come offline to open the CAP. --- W. Curtis Preston Author of O'Reilly's Backup Recovery and Using SANs and NAS VP Data Protection GlassHouse Technologies From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Keating Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:42 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6 the ATL (Quantum) P1000 and P3000 libraries I've dealt with years ago can as well. the ADIC scalar24 I have goes offline, however, IIRC. Paul -- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tschida, Tom (STP) Sent: January 11, 2007 7:12 AM To: Curtis Preston; Sponsler, Michael; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6 You're right about the STK's. We have L20's, L40's, L700's and even an old 9740, and they can al be opened without taking them off-line. Tom Tschida Boston Scientific 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] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6
You're right about the STK's. We have L20's, L40's, L700's and even an old 9740, and they can al be opened without taking them off-line. Tom Tschida Boston Scientific From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 1:39 AM To: Sponsler, Michael; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6 Really? I haven't used that particular model, but that reminds me of the OLD Quantum 4x100 libraries (forgot the model number) from years ago. I'm pretty sure that you can open the CAP on an ADIC (now Quantum), STK (now Sun) and IBM library without taking the library offline. (Anyone want to say different?) Is this just a PX510 thing, or is this all Quantum (non-ADIC) libraries? Am I right about the other libraries not having this issue? --- W. Curtis Preston Author of O'Reilly's Backup Recovery and Using SANs and NAS VP Data Protection GlassHouse Technologies From: Sponsler, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 9:31 AM To: Curtis Preston; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6 I can't open the doors to the PX510 without taking the drive itself it offline. There is no mail slot in the PX510. There are load ports, but again, I have to open the door of the PX510 to access the load ports, and the PX510 itself will not open the doors while the PX510 itself is on-line. The on-line / off-line of the PX510 is different than the on-line / off-line status of the drives in Netbackup. -- Mike Sponsler Northrop Grumman [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Curtis Preston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:02 PM To: Sponsler, Michael; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6 Patient: Doctor my arms hurts when I move it like this. Doctor: Don't move it like that. Seriously, why not use NBU's ability to move tapes in and out of the library without having to take it offline? --- W. Curtis Preston Author of O'Reilly's Backup Recovery and Using SANs and NAS VP Data Protection GlassHouse Technologies From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sponsler, Michael Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 8:07 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6 All, I've got an odd problem with my PX510 and my Solaris 10, Netbackup 6.0 MP2 master server. The PX510 is connected to a fibre san switch, and my Solaris 10 Netbackup 6 master server is connected into the san switch as well. When the PX510 is taken off-line (say to add new tapes, remove old tapes, inventory the tape library at the PX510), then taken back on-line, I can't see the PX510 from my Solaris 10 master server. If I run sgscan from the Solaris 10 box, I can't see the the jukebox until the Solaris 10 box is reset. The odd thing is, is that the PX510 is used for Shared Storage. I've got a Linux box (SLES 9) running Netbackup 6 MP2 connected to the fibre san switch as well. The Linux box can see it by running /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/scan before and after the PX510 goes offline then online. I can't keep rebooting my Solaris 10 master server every time I add or remove tapes from it. I've tried modunload and modload on the sg and st modules in solaris. Has anyone had anything similar to this occur to them? If so did you find a work around? Or if you've got any general ideas, please share. -- Mike Sponsler Northrop Grumman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6
the ATL (Quantum) P1000 and P3000 libraries I've dealt with years ago can as well. the ADIC scalar24 I have goes offline, however, IIRC. Paul -- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tschida, Tom (STP) Sent: January 11, 2007 7:12 AM To: Curtis Preston; Sponsler, Michael; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6 You're right about the STK's. We have L20's, L40's, L700's and even an old 9740, and they can al be opened without taking them off-line. Tom Tschida Boston Scientific 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] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6
Patient: Doctor my arms hurts when I move it like this. Doctor: Don't move it like that. Seriously, why not use NBU's ability to move tapes in and out of the library without having to take it offline? --- W. Curtis Preston Author of O'Reilly's Backup Recovery and Using SANs and NAS VP Data Protection GlassHouse Technologies From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sponsler, Michael Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 8:07 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6 All, I've got an odd problem with my PX510 and my Solaris 10, Netbackup 6.0 MP2 master server. The PX510 is connected to a fibre san switch, and my Solaris 10 Netbackup 6 master server is connected into the san switch as well. When the PX510 is taken off-line (say to add new tapes, remove old tapes, inventory the tape library at the PX510), then taken back on-line, I can't see the PX510 from my Solaris 10 master server. If I run sgscan from the Solaris 10 box, I can't see the the jukebox until the Solaris 10 box is reset. The odd thing is, is that the PX510 is used for Shared Storage. I've got a Linux box (SLES 9) running Netbackup 6 MP2 connected to the fibre san switch as well. The Linux box can see it by running /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/scan before and after the PX510 goes offline then online. I can't keep rebooting my Solaris 10 master server every time I add or remove tapes from it. I've tried modunload and modload on the sg and st modules in solaris. Has anyone had anything similar to this occur to them? If so did you find a work around? Or if you've got any general ideas, please share. -- Mike Sponsler Northrop Grumman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6
I can't open the doors to the PX510 without taking the drive itself it offline. There is no mail slot in the PX510. There are load ports, but again, I have to open the door of the PX510 to access the load ports, and the PX510 itself will not open the doors while the PX510 itself is on-line. The on-line / off-line of the PX510 is different than the on-line / off-line status of the drives in Netbackup. -- Mike Sponsler Northrop Grumman [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Curtis Preston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:02 PM To: Sponsler, Michael; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6 Patient: Doctor my arms hurts when I move it like this. Doctor: Don't move it like that. Seriously, why not use NBU's ability to move tapes in and out of the library without having to take it offline? --- W. Curtis Preston Author of O'Reilly's Backup Recovery and Using SANs and NAS VP Data Protection GlassHouse Technologies From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sponsler, Michael Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 8:07 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6 All, I've got an odd problem with my PX510 and my Solaris 10, Netbackup 6.0 MP2 master server. The PX510 is connected to a fibre san switch, and my Solaris 10 Netbackup 6 master server is connected into the san switch as well. When the PX510 is taken off-line (say to add new tapes, remove old tapes, inventory the tape library at the PX510), then taken back on-line, I can't see the PX510 from my Solaris 10 master server. If I run sgscan from the Solaris 10 box, I can't see the the jukebox until the Solaris 10 box is reset. The odd thing is, is that the PX510 is used for Shared Storage. I've got a Linux box (SLES 9) running Netbackup 6 MP2 connected to the fibre san switch as well. The Linux box can see it by running /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/scan before and after the PX510 goes offline then online. I can't keep rebooting my Solaris 10 master server every time I add or remove tapes from it. I've tried modunload and modload on the sg and st modules in solaris. Has anyone had anything similar to this occur to them? If so did you find a work around? Or if you've got any general ideas, please share. -- Mike Sponsler Northrop Grumman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6
THE PX series Media Access port is pretty sad at best. Its potentially a work around, but we don't use it here because its terrible. -Jonathan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:02 PM To: Sponsler, Michael; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6 Patient: Doctor my arms hurts when I move it like this. Doctor: Don't move it like that. Seriously, why not use NBU's ability to move tapes in and out of the library without having to take it offline? --- W. Curtis Preston Author of O'Reilly's Backup Recovery and Using SANs and NAS VP Data Protection GlassHouse Technologies From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sponsler, Michael Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 8:07 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6 All, I've got an odd problem with my PX510 and my Solaris 10, Netbackup 6.0 MP2 master server. The PX510 is connected to a fibre san switch, and my Solaris 10 Netbackup 6 master server is connected into the san switch as well. When the PX510 is taken off-line (say to add new tapes, remove old tapes, inventory the tape library at the PX510), then taken back on-line, I can't see the PX510 from my Solaris 10 master server. If I run sgscan from the Solaris 10 box, I can't see the the jukebox until the Solaris 10 box is reset. The odd thing is, is that the PX510 is used for Shared Storage. I've got a Linux box (SLES 9) running Netbackup 6 MP2 connected to the fibre san switch as well. The Linux box can see it by running /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/scan before and after the PX510 goes offline then online. I can't keep rebooting my Solaris 10 master server every time I add or remove tapes from it. I've tried modunload and modload on the sg and st modules in solaris. Has anyone had anything similar to this occur to them? If so did you find a work around? Or if you've got any general ideas, please share. -- Mike Sponsler Northrop Grumman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6
I had an issue a few years ago on solaris 8. During the nightly backup window, the master would lose contact with the library so as long as a backup didn't need another tape, things would keep running, however, once another tape was required, then I was in trouble . . . I had to reboot the master to fix the problem. Turns out I needed an isp driver patch and once that was applied things we all good! I would confirm that your master is patched with the recommended cluster and if that doesn't work, then I would open a case with SUN . . . http://icbc.com/ Scott Chapman Senior Technical Specialist Storage Database Administration Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 250-414-7650 Fax: 250-978-8003 Cell:250-213-9295 910 Government St. Victoria, BC V8W 3Y8 www.icbc.com http://www.icbc.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 9:02 AM To: Sponsler, Michael; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6 Patient: Doctor my arms hurts when I move it like this. Doctor: Don't move it like that. Seriously, why not use NBU's ability to move tapes in and out of the library without having to take it offline? --- W. Curtis Preston Author of O'Reilly's Backup Recovery and Using SANs and NAS VP Data Protection GlassHouse Technologies From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sponsler, Michael Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 8:07 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6 All, I've got an odd problem with my PX510 and my Solaris 10, Netbackup 6.0 MP2 master server. The PX510 is connected to a fibre san switch, and my Solaris 10 Netbackup 6 master server is connected into the san switch as well. When the PX510 is taken off-line (say to add new tapes, remove old tapes, inventory the tape library at the PX510), then taken back on-line, I can't see the PX510 from my Solaris 10 master server. If I run sgscan from the Solaris 10 box, I can't see the the jukebox until the Solaris 10 box is reset. The odd thing is, is that the PX510 is used for Shared Storage. I've got a Linux box (SLES 9) running Netbackup 6 MP2 connected to the fibre san switch as well. The Linux box can see it by running /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/scan before and after the PX510 goes offline then online. I can't keep rebooting my Solaris 10 master server every time I add or remove tapes from it. I've tried modunload and modload on the sg and st modules in solaris. Has anyone had anything similar to this occur to them? If so did you find a work around? Or if you've got any general ideas, please share. -- Mike Sponsler Northrop Grumman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6
Really? I haven't used that particular model, but that reminds me of the OLD Quantum 4x100 libraries (forgot the model number) from years ago. I'm pretty sure that you can open the CAP on an ADIC (now Quantum), STK (now Sun) and IBM library without taking the library offline. (Anyone want to say different?) Is this just a PX510 thing, or is this all Quantum (non-ADIC) libraries? Am I right about the other libraries not having this issue? --- W. Curtis Preston Author of O'Reilly's Backup Recovery and Using SANs and NAS VP Data Protection GlassHouse Technologies From: Sponsler, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 9:31 AM To: Curtis Preston; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6 I can't open the doors to the PX510 without taking the drive itself it offline. There is no mail slot in the PX510. There are load ports, but again, I have to open the door of the PX510 to access the load ports, and the PX510 itself will not open the doors while the PX510 itself is on-line. The on-line / off-line of the PX510 is different than the on-line / off-line status of the drives in Netbackup. -- Mike Sponsler Northrop Grumman [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Curtis Preston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:02 PM To: Sponsler, Michael; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6 Patient: Doctor my arms hurts when I move it like this. Doctor: Don't move it like that. Seriously, why not use NBU's ability to move tapes in and out of the library without having to take it offline? --- W. Curtis Preston Author of O'Reilly's Backup Recovery and Using SANs and NAS VP Data Protection GlassHouse Technologies From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sponsler, Michael Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 8:07 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Quantum PX510 with Solaris 10, Netbackup 6 All, I've got an odd problem with my PX510 and my Solaris 10, Netbackup 6.0 MP2 master server. The PX510 is connected to a fibre san switch, and my Solaris 10 Netbackup 6 master server is connected into the san switch as well. When the PX510 is taken off-line (say to add new tapes, remove old tapes, inventory the tape library at the PX510), then taken back on-line, I can't see the PX510 from my Solaris 10 master server. If I run sgscan from the Solaris 10 box, I can't see the the jukebox until the Solaris 10 box is reset. The odd thing is, is that the PX510 is used for Shared Storage. I've got a Linux box (SLES 9) running Netbackup 6 MP2 connected to the fibre san switch as well. The Linux box can see it by running /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/scan before and after the PX510 goes offline then online. I can't keep rebooting my Solaris 10 master server every time I add or remove tapes from it. I've tried modunload and modload on the sg and st modules in solaris. Has anyone had anything similar to this occur to them? If so did you find a work around? Or if you've got any general ideas, please share. -- Mike Sponsler Northrop Grumman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
