Re: [Veritas-bu] SAN Switch Change caused NBU7 to lose tape drives

2010-07-09 Thread Hans-Peter.Wirth
Hello, even we have no experience in NBU7, I think the behavior is similar as in NBU 6.5 - the thing is the FC-ID. In this FC-ID the Domain-ID of the Switch is encoded, so the change you made resulted in different FC-IDs. On an AIX System those IDs are used. It was possible to delete the drives

Re: [Veritas-bu] SAN Switch Change caused NBU7 to lose tape drives

2010-07-08 Thread pharrold
Not sure on the Windows side, as that sounds like hardware/firmware.  However, on the Solaris media server try running tpautoconf -report_disc Its possible EMM is having issues with the new WWNs being presented and thinks some of the drives are duplicates. Fairly easy to clean up once

Re: [Veritas-bu] SAN Switch Change caused NBU7 to lose tape drives

2010-07-08 Thread judy_hinchcliffe
Unix - on aix if I had done that I would bet my tape drive would have gone from avail to defined - where defined says it is in the database but cannot see the physical. So I would have removed it and run cfgmgr to rediscovery the tape drives. Not sure how that works on Solaris As to windows,

Re: [Veritas-bu] SAN Switch Change caused NBU7 to lose tape drives

2010-07-08 Thread Kevin Holtz
1. make sure all services are running. 2. try deleting devices drive/robot from the GUi. If it fails you can use vmglob -delete xxx from a command line. Once the devices are removed. 3. Run scan or sgscan in /volmgr/bin You should see a robot and x number of drives. Note: if you

Re: [Veritas-bu] SAN Switch Change caused NBU7 to lose tape drives

2010-07-08 Thread judy_hinchcliffe
All of my san drives show bus 0, thought this was normal. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Brandon35 Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 3:25 PM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject:

Re: [Veritas-bu] SAN Switch Change caused NBU7 to lose tape drives

2010-07-08 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 04:24:59PM -0400, Brandon35 wrote: Im having tape drives show up with the same BUS address... Drive 1 Location: Bus Number 0, Target ID 1, LUN 0 Drive 2 Location: Bus Number 0, Target ID 2, LUN 0 Drive 3 Location: Bus Number 0, Target ID 3, LUN 0 Drive 4 Location:

Re: [Veritas-bu] SAN Switch Change caused NBU7 to lose tape drives

2010-07-08 Thread judy_hinchcliffe
The -1 -1 -1 says that it has lost the info on the drive. Try it by hand via the gui Go devices Drives Open up a drive that shows -1 -1 -1 for one of your windows servers From that window highlight the line for the media server that shows the -1's Choose remove Say ok Let it update. Once

Re: [Veritas-bu] SAN Switch Change caused NBU7 to lose tape drives

2010-07-08 Thread Preston, Douglas
You need to delete the drives from windows netbackup gui and re add them Doug Preston -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Brandon35 Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 2:23 PM To:

Re: [Veritas-bu] SAN Switch Change caused NBU7 to lose tape drives

2010-07-08 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 05:22:48PM -0400, Brandon35 wrote: I tried this on my solaris box, all I get is * ** SDT_TAPE * * and nothing... So it's not currently detecting tape drives on the scsi-compatible busses. I imagine if you tried to

Re: [Veritas-bu] SAN Switch Change caused NBU7 to lose tape drives

2010-07-08 Thread judy_hinchcliffe
Every time I have seen the -1 -1 -1 I had issues with the drive in NB and had to remove and read. Always happened when something on the SAN went a little wrong. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On

Re: [Veritas-bu] SAN Switch Change caused NBU7 to lose tape drives

2010-07-07 Thread Martin, Jonathan
Just a shot in the dark here, but is it possible the old drives are hidden because of the path changes? You can check using this support article. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315539 Also, have you run the TUR fix for your fiber tape drives? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/842411 -Jonathan

Re: [Veritas-bu] SAN Switch Change caused NBU7 to lose tape drives

2010-07-07 Thread Shyam Hazari
Have you tried cold booting the servers ? -Shyam On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Brandon35 netbackup-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Hi everyone, In one of my environments we replaced our old SAN switch with a new Cisco. We went from 1 fabric on the old switch to 2 fabrics on the new