Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup job gets to mounting tape but never to position
Are you certain that the host can communicate with the drive? I don't see any message that the tape was successfully mounted. NetBackup may not think that the tape is mounted if it can't communicate with the drive. You could try an mt command on the device to see if you can communicate with it. Alternatively, you could use robtest to mount a tape in that drive, then use the dd command to see if you can read from it. Say your drive is at /dev/rmt/0cbn ... mt -f /dev/rmt/0cbn Use robtest to mount a tape in the drive, then dd if=/dev/rmt/0cbn bs=65536 count=1 If the tape has previously been used by netbackup and has a volume header on it, you should see the tape volser somewhere in the output from the dd command Were any changes made to the server or drive? Is the drive SAN attached or SCSI? How many drives do you have? If it's a SAN drive, are you using persistent binding so that the device assignments don't change if the server is rebooted? -- Jack Forester, Jr. Senior Data Protection Analyst Symantec Certified Specialist - NetBackup 7.0 for UNIX Administration Global Technology Services Mylan 781 Chestnut Ridge Road Morgantown, WV 26505 (Embedded image moved to file: pic13558.jpg) From: Dennis Peacock nbu-fo...@backupcentral.com To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Date: 01/15/2013 05:37 PM Subject:[Veritas-bu] Backup job gets to mounting tape but never to position Sent by:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu NBU 7.1x running on Solaris 9 box. 01/15/2013 16:29:29 - Info bptm (pid=24504) Waiting for mount of media id EF0997 (copy 1) on server gandalf. 01/15/2013 16:29:29 - mounting EF0997 and it sits there foreveruntil the job fails. This has been a working environment and there are 2 clients that backup to this master server/media server. It just doesn't like backing itself up. Any ideas? +-- |This was sent by dpe...@acxiom.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu attachment: pic13558.jpg___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup job gets to mounting tape but never to position
Dennis Do you have bptm logging turned on with a verbose level of 5? If so what is in the log for this tape request. I assume the tape is in a tape library? If so does the tape cart get moved to the tape drive? What is in the system logs (messages, syslog, windows event log) for this request? Do you have the verbose setting turned on for ltid? len -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Dennis Peacock Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 5:37 PM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backup job gets to mounting tape but never to position NBU 7.1x running on Solaris 9 box. 01/15/2013 16:29:29 - Info bptm (pid=24504) Waiting for mount of media id EF0997 (copy 1) on server gandalf. 01/15/2013 16:29:29 - mounting EF0997 and it sits there foreveruntil the job fails. This has been a working environment and there are 2 clients that backup to this master server/media server. It just doesn't like backing itself up. Any ideas? +-- |This was sent by dpe...@acxiom.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- ___ 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] Backup job gets to mounting tape but never to position
Hello Dennis Could be a problem with the EF0997 tape, unless of cause the clients is backing up to this tape too Might it worth trying to freeze this tape as a test Regards Michael Den 15/01/2013 kl. 23.37 skrev Dennis Peacock nbu-fo...@backupcentral.com: NBU 7.1x running on Solaris 9 box. 01/15/2013 16:29:29 - Info bptm (pid=24504) Waiting for mount of media id EF0997 (copy 1) on server gandalf. 01/15/2013 16:29:29 - mounting EF0997 and it sits there foreveruntil the job fails. This has been a working environment and there are 2 clients that backup to this master server/media server. It just doesn't like backing itself up. Any ideas? +-- |This was sent by dpe...@acxiom.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- ___ 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
