Hi Jamie, Read this:
*LTO-4* can *read*/write LTO-3 tapes but can only *read* LTO-2 tapes. It cannot *read LTO-1* tapes On Feb 20, 2008 2:16 PM, JAJA (Jamie Jamison) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having problems restoring a cumulative incremental standard policy > backup stored on an LTO2 tape on an LTO4 drive. The density settings for the > LTO2 tapes on my system is HCART, for LTO4 it's HCART3. I've run restores > where I've set one of the LTO4 drives as density HCART in the device > manager, restarted LTID and then created a storage unit for the LTO4 drive > with the HCART density setting. I've also been able to run restores by > setting the write protect tab on the LTO2 tape and then using vmchange to > change the density to HCART3. > > I've been trying to restore from two tapes from a backup in November and I > keep getting messages like this in the status window. > > 2/19/2008 12:59:46 PM - begin Restore > 2/19/2008 12:59:48 PM - 1 images required > 2/19/2008 12:59:48 PM - media K00443 required > 2/19/2008 12:59:52 PM - restoring image spike.zgi.com_1195784616 > 2/19/2008 12:59:54 PM - connecting > 2/19/2008 12:59:56 PM - connected; connect time: 00:00:02 > 2/19/2008 12:59:56 PM - requesting resource K00443 > 2/19/2008 12:59:56 PM - granted resource K00443 > 2/19/2008 12:59:56 PM - granted resource rmt-3cbn > 2/19/2008 12:59:58 PM - Warning bptm(pid=546) media id K00443 not found in > Media Manager, mount request will most likely occur > 2/19/2008 12:59:58 PM - started process bptm (546) > 2/19/2008 12:59:58 PM - mounting K00443 > > I don't know why I'm getting the "media id not found in media manager" > error. The tape shows up if you do a bpmedialist or a vmquery. What I see is > that the tape loads into the proper drive, does nothing for a while and then > then NetBackup says that it is done with the tape (in this case K00443) and > needs to load the next tape, which it identifies as K00443 (this is a one > tape restore, I'm only interested in restoring the cumulative incremental > backups from two days) and downs the tape drive. Does anyone have any > suggestions on how to deal with this? > > Thanks, > > Jamie Jamison > > _______________________________________________ > Veritas-bu maillist - [email protected] > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu > >
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