in need, it's the backup software that is supposed to provide this functionality (TSM does it) forget about mpxio
s- On 10/18/07, Engle, Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From: Torrey McMahon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > What you could do is make all other paths a standby path and, > > in case of a failure, use the alternate path. However, the > > trick is getting backup software to use the alt path and > > perform all the related error recovery in a failure mode. In > > the vast majority of cases backup software will fail the > > entire job if the the tape device is marked as failed. You'd > > have to change it to ping the available paths from time to > > time and try to restart automatically to get any benefit from > > alternate paths to the tape device. > > > > I would think that if the tape drive is under mpxio control then the > backup s/w would see only 1 scsi_vhci path. I like the idea of having 1 > active and 1 standby path to the tape drive. Even if the backup server > has to restart the backup job it was working on at the time that is much > better than having the tape drive offline until I replace the HBA. > _______________________________________________ > storage-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss > _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
