Re: [Veritas-bu] Weird tape drive behavior

2006-03-23 Thread Austin Murphy
Which version of NetBackup? What OS? NetBackup 5.1 MP2 on Solaris had a problem with positioning I think. MP3 or MP3A fixed it. At least thats what our consultant told us. Austin On 3/23/06, Song, Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed a new tape library Sun L100 with 3 x LTO-2

Re: [Veritas-bu] Weird tape drive behavior

2006-03-23 Thread Christopher Jay Manders
Just checking...you do have this directive in your /usr/openv/netbackup/bp.conf, right? ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE = TAR hth --Chris I just installed a new tape library Sun L100 with 3 x LTO-2 drives and one of the drives keeps showing weird behaviors. I believe I have all the

RE: [Veritas-bu] Weird tape drive behavior

2006-03-23 Thread Song, Young
' Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Weird tape drive behavior Just checking...you do have this directive in your /usr/openv/netbackup/bp.conf, right? ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE = TAR hth --Chris I just installed a new tape library Sun L100 with 3 x LTO-2 drives and one of the drives keeps showing weird

RE: [Veritas-bu] Weird tape drive behavior

2006-03-23 Thread Song, Young
Hi Austin, I'm using Data Center 4.5 FP8 on Sun Solaris 8. Thanks. - Young -Original Message- From: Austin Murphy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 11:43 AM To: Song, Young Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Weird tape drive

RE: [Veritas-bu] Weird tape drive behavior

2006-03-23 Thread Mickey Baker
Hi, Young, Is there anything in /var/adm/messages? I'll bet there's a bit more detail about the nature of the error, if it's something returned from the drive or driver. You might want to use robtest to make sure the library robot can move tapes around and that it puts tapes in the correct