topic Re: DSS3 tape drive problem in Operating System - HP-UX

DSS3 tape drive problem

Joe Chow_1 — Wed, 11 May 2005 16:29:48 GMT

Hi, there.

I'm having problem with a DSS3 tape drive connected to a HP9000 running on HP-UX 11i. It's giving me the following error when I try to backup files to it. I've checked the SCSI ID and ran ioscan, everything looks fine. However, when I try do a fbackup or run ignite recovery in SAM, it tells that:

/etc/auto_nc line 17: syntax error at "1"

/usr/sam/lbin/autoopt: Problem parsing master automounter file "/etc/auto_master".

The br_log in sam also shows a error 2 for device not found.

I'm thinking it's a device file issue here, and this is what the /dev/rmt/ looks like:
dim44 #ls
0m 1mn c0t1d0BEST c0t1d0DDSn c0t4d0BEST
0mb 1mnb c0t1d0BESTb c0t1d0DDSnb c0t4d0BESTb
0mn 3m c0t1d0BESTn c0t3d0BEST c0t4d0BESTn
0mnb 3mb c0t1d0BESTnb c0t3d0BESTb c0t4d0BESTnb
1m 3mn c0t1d0DDS c0t3d0BESTn stape_config
1mb 3mnb c0t1d0DDSb c0t3d0BESTnb

Re: DSS3 tape drive problem

Rick Garland — Wed, 11 May 2005 16:33:38 GMT

Looks like when the fbackup is creating the file list, it is invoking the autoFS. This has a problem.

Are you you using auto mounts?

Re: DSS3 tape drive problem

Joe Chow_1 — Thu, 12 May 2005 08:43:44 GMT

Yes, I supposed SAM automount the tape device everytime you try to schedule a backup, at least that's the case for all of our HP UX environment when run in SAM. It had never cause a problem before though.

Any suggestion please?