Very useful, Thank you -----Original Message----- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Don Peterson Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 10:57 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Media ID / Barcode rules
In NBU 6.5.3 and above the following fix to help resolve this issue was added. This allows NBU to receive two different bar codes from different libraries, yet understand they are from the same media id. From the command line you can specify -fix_barcode_suffix or if you are using the GUI you will need to add a touch file - /usr/openv/volmgr/database/FIX_BARCODE_SUFFIX The recognition of matching barcodes is based on two things: 1.) the barcodes must be at least 6 characters in length and identical except the last two characters 2.) the media id generation settings on the library must match those on the old library such that the media id generated based on the new barcode is the same media id as is in the database. So if their media ids contain the "L1", "L2" etc suffix, this fix won't work for them." That said, we have discovered a problem with this fix that causes problems when new media are added using the new library. An EEB to address that is available by quoting Etrack 1486729 if you open a support case. Don Peterson Principal Product Manager, NetBackup Information Management Group Symantec Corporation _________________________________ Email: don_peter...@symantec.com -----Original Message----- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of veritas-bu-requ...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 2:24 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Veritas-bu Digest, Vol 45, Issue 3 Send Veritas-bu mailing list submissions to veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to veritas-bu-requ...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu You can reach the person managing the list at veritas-bu-ow...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Veritas-bu digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Media ID / Barcode rules (BeDour, Wayne) 2. Re: Media ID / Barcode rules (BeDour, Wayne) 3. Re: Media ID / Barcode rules (smpt) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 09:27:58 -0500 From: "BeDour, Wayne" <wbed...@lear.com> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Media ID / Barcode rules To: "smpt" <sm...@peppas.gr>, <veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu> Message-ID: <ec5487fb7167e14da1c841f7ff47878b05e7a...@usmisfl-exm3.corp.lear.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" That was it, thanks.... Wayne BeDour Unix System Administrator PH: 248-447-1739 Internet: wbed...@lear.com ________________________________ From: smpt [mailto:sm...@peppas.gr] Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 8:14 AM To: BeDour, Wayne; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Media ID / Barcode rules This is because your old library was giving you only the first 6 characters of the barcode. All new libraries gives you all 8 barcode characters . To change this, go to your library GUI and logon as administrator. Go to configuration -> system and change the value of "Barcode Label Length Reported To Host from 8 to 6. Be sure that "Barcode Label Alignment Reported To Host" is left. If you do not want to change the library, you have to configure media ID generation and not the barcode rules. But you have to import all tapes with hand and right click them and select update barcode. stefanos From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of BeDour, Wayne Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 2:48 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Media ID / Barcode rules Our environment, NBU 6.5.4 running on HP-UX 11-31 with a Data Domain VTL and newly attached MSL6060 tape library that replaced a SureStore 20/700 library. I don't think we had any barcode rules set up for anything but cleaning cartridges when we were using the 20/700 library. The physical barcodes on the tapes are for example 000001L1 and the last 2 characters were dropped leaving 000001 as the Media ID and Barcode. Now that the MSL6060 library is connected when I do an inventory it gives me 0001L1 for a Media ID and 000001L1 for a Barcode. I'm going through the manual and getting confused on how to accomplish dropping the last 2 characters (L1) and using only the first 6 (000001) for both Media ID and Barcode. Can anyone let me know or at least point me in the right direction to accomplish this? Thanks in advance... Wayne BeDour Unix System Administrator PH: 248-447-1739 Internet: wbed...@lear.com <mailto:wbed...@lear.com> ********************** ** LEGAL DISCLAIMER ** ********************** This E-mail message and any attachments may contain legally privileged, confidential or proprietary information. 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If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and delete this E-mail message from your computer. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/pipermail/veritas-bu/attachments/20100106/8034 199c/attachment-0001.htm ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 14:02:05 -0500 From: "BeDour, Wayne" <wbed...@lear.com> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Media ID / Barcode rules To: "smpt" <sm...@peppas.gr>, <veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu> Message-ID: <ec5487fb7167e14da1c841f7ff47878b05ebb...@usmisfl-exm3.corp.lear.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Well I thought that took care of the issue but there is still a problem. I ran an inventory on my tapes after changing the Barcode Label Length to 6 and everything looked good. I tried to run a duplication using the new library and tapes with the 6 character bar codes and it couldn't find any media and gave me a 96 error. Note, the tapes I'm trying to use are scratch tapes that from the old library that are cataloged in NetBackup. Basically all that's been done is the tape library has been changed along with the addition of a Data Domain VTL. In trying to debug this, I changed the Barcode Label Length back to 8, reran the inventory, kicked off my dupe job and got the output below. The D11230 is the source of the duplication and it says it is mounting 0717L1 which is the Media ID for barcode 000717L1 then saying it found 000717 in the drive. The Media ID and barcode are getting shifted both ways, how do I get this to use only the leftmost 6 characters and recognize them when I kick off a job? Anyone have any idea what's going on and what I can do to take care of this???? 01/06/2010 13:48:57 - begin Duplicate 01/06/2010 13:48:57 - requesting resource yos_sam1-hcart2-robot-tld-0 01/06/2010 13:48:57 - requesting resource D11230 01/06/2010 13:48:57 - reserving resource D11230 01/06/2010 13:48:58 - resource D11230 reserved 01/06/2010 13:48:58 - granted resource 0717L1 01/06/2010 13:48:58 - granted resource HP.ULTRIUM2-SCSI.003 01/06/2010 13:48:58 - granted resource yos_sam1-hcart2-robot-tld-0 01/06/2010 13:48:58 - granted resource D11230 01/06/2010 13:48:58 - granted resource IBM.ULTRIUM-TD1.006 01/06/2010 13:49:05 - started process bptm (pid=25248) 01/06/2010 13:49:15 - started process bptm (pid=25394) 01/06/2010 13:49:17 - started process bptm (pid=25248) 01/06/2010 13:49:17 - mounting 0717L1 01/06/2010 13:49:18 - started process bptm (pid=25394) 01/06/2010 13:49:18 - mounting D11230 01/06/2010 13:49:29 - mounted D11230; mount time: 0:00:11 01/06/2010 13:49:29 - positioning D11230 to file 1 01/06/2010 13:49:29 - positioned D11230; position time: 0:00:00 01/06/2010 13:49:30 - begin reading 01/06/2010 13:50:11 - Error bptm (pid=25248) incorrect media found in drive index 14, expected 0717L1, found 000717, FREEZING 0717L1 01/06/2010 13:50:11 - current media 0717L1 complete, requesting next media Any Thanks Wayne BeDour Unix System Administrator PH: 248-447-1739 Internet: wbed...@lear.com ________________________________ From: smpt [mailto:sm...@peppas.gr] Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 8:14 AM To: BeDour, Wayne; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Media ID / Barcode rules This is because your old library was giving you only the first 6 characters of the barcode. All new libraries gives you all 8 barcode characters . To change this, go to your library GUI and logon as administrator. Go to configuration -> system and change the value of "Barcode Label Length Reported To Host from 8 to 6. Be sure that "Barcode Label Alignment Reported To Host" is left. If you do not want to change the library, you have to configure media ID generation and not the barcode rules. But you have to import all tapes with hand and right click them and select update barcode. stefanos From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of BeDour, Wayne Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 2:48 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Media ID / Barcode rules Our environment, NBU 6.5.4 running on HP-UX 11-31 with a Data Domain VTL and newly attached MSL6060 tape library that replaced a SureStore 20/700 library. I don't think we had any barcode rules set up for anything but cleaning cartridges when we were using the 20/700 library. The physical barcodes on the tapes are for example 000001L1 and the last 2 characters were dropped leaving 000001 as the Media ID and Barcode. Now that the MSL6060 library is connected when I do an inventory it gives me 0001L1 for a Media ID and 000001L1 for a Barcode. I'm going through the manual and getting confused on how to accomplish dropping the last 2 characters (L1) and using only the first 6 (000001) for both Media ID and Barcode. Can anyone let me know or at least point me in the right direction to accomplish this? Thanks in advance... Wayne BeDour Unix System Administrator PH: 248-447-1739 Internet: wbed...@lear.com <mailto:wbed...@lear.com> ********************** ** LEGAL DISCLAIMER ** ********************** This E-mail message and any attachments may contain legally privileged, confidential or proprietary information. 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If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and delete this E-mail message from your computer. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/pipermail/veritas-bu/attachments/20100106/2736 7d6a/attachment-0001.htm ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 22:24:19 +0200 From: "smpt" <sm...@peppas.gr> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Media ID / Barcode rules To: "'BeDour, Wayne'" <wbed...@lear.com>, <veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu> Message-ID: <000901ca8f0e$3a3ab300$aeb019...@gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Ok, move back the characters of the library to 6 and delete from netbackup all tapes that are at the scratch pool and all tapes that you try to use during this period (like 000717L1). Be sour that no backups are written to the tapes you will delete. If you are not sour about the frozen tapes just remove them from the library. After you delete the tapes rerun the inventory and be sour that you have tape ID 000717 and barcode 000717 (NOT with L1). From: BeDour, Wayne [mailto:wbed...@lear.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 9:02 PM To: smpt; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Media ID / Barcode rules Well I thought that took care of the issue but there is still a problem. I ran an inventory on my tapes after changing the Barcode Label Length to 6 and everything looked good. I tried to run a duplication using the new library and tapes with the 6 character bar codes and it couldn't find any media and gave me a 96 error. Note, the tapes I'm trying to use are scratch tapes that from the old library that are cataloged in NetBackup. Basically all that's been done is the tape library has been changed along with the addition of a Data Domain VTL. In trying to debug this, I changed the Barcode Label Length back to 8, reran the inventory, kicked off my dupe job and got the output below. The D11230 is the source of the duplication and it says it is mounting 0717L1 which is the Media ID for barcode 000717L1 then saying it found 000717 in the drive. The Media ID and barcode are getting shifted both ways, how do I get this to use only the leftmost 6 characters and recognize them when I kick off a job? Anyone have any idea what's going on and what I can do to take care of this???? 01/06/2010 13:48:57 - begin Duplicate 01/06/2010 13:48:57 - requesting resource yos_sam1-hcart2-robot-tld-0 01/06/2010 13:48:57 - requesting resource D11230 01/06/2010 13:48:57 - reserving resource D11230 01/06/2010 13:48:58 - resource D11230 reserved 01/06/2010 13:48:58 - granted resource 0717L1 01/06/2010 13:48:58 - granted resource HP.ULTRIUM2-SCSI.003 01/06/2010 13:48:58 - granted resource yos_sam1-hcart2-robot-tld-0 01/06/2010 13:48:58 - granted resource D11230 01/06/2010 13:48:58 - granted resource IBM.ULTRIUM-TD1.006 01/06/2010 13:49:05 - started process bptm (pid=25248) 01/06/2010 13:49:15 - started process bptm (pid=25394) 01/06/2010 13:49:17 - started process bptm (pid=25248) 01/06/2010 13:49:17 - mounting 0717L1 01/06/2010 13:49:18 - started process bptm (pid=25394) 01/06/2010 13:49:18 - mounting D11230 01/06/2010 13:49:29 - mounted D11230; mount time: 0:00:11 01/06/2010 13:49:29 - positioning D11230 to file 1 01/06/2010 13:49:29 - positioned D11230; position time: 0:00:00 01/06/2010 13:49:30 - begin reading 01/06/2010 13:50:11 - Error bptm (pid=25248) incorrect media found in drive index 14, expected 0717L1, found 000717, FREEZING 0717L1 01/06/2010 13:50:11 - current media 0717L1 complete, requesting next media Any Thanks Wayne BeDour Unix System Administrator PH: 248-447-1739 Internet: wbed...@lear.com _____ From: smpt [mailto:sm...@peppas.gr] Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 8:14 AM To: BeDour, Wayne; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Media ID / Barcode rules This is because your old library was giving you only the first 6 characters of the barcode. All new libraries gives you all 8 barcode characters . To change this, go to your library GUI and logon as administrator. Go to configuration -> system and change the value of "Barcode Label Length Reported To Host from 8 to 6. Be sure that "Barcode Label Alignment Reported To Host" is left. If you do not want to change the library, you have to configure media ID generation and not the barcode rules. But you have to import all tapes with hand and right click them and select update barcode. stefanos From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of BeDour, Wayne Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 2:48 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Media ID / Barcode rules Our environment, NBU 6.5.4 running on HP-UX 11-31 with a Data Domain VTL and newly attached MSL6060 tape library that replaced a SureStore 20/700 library. I don't think we had any barcode rules set up for anything but cleaning cartridges when we were using the 20/700 library. The physical barcodes on the tapes are for example 000001L1 and the last 2 characters were dropped leaving 000001 as the Media ID and Barcode. Now that the MSL6060 library is connected when I do an inventory it gives me 0001L1 for a Media ID and 000001L1 for a Barcode. I'm going through the manual and getting confused on how to accomplish dropping the last 2 characters (L1) and using only the first 6 (000001) for both Media ID and Barcode. Can anyone let me know or at least point me in the right direction to accomplish this? Thanks in advance. Wayne BeDour Unix System Administrator PH: 248-447-1739 Internet: <mailto:wbed...@lear.com> wbed...@lear.com ********************** ** LEGAL DISCLAIMER ** ********************** This E-mail message and any attachments may contain legally privileged, confidential or proprietary information. 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