tape drive in netbackup is not updating

[sachit patil]

Hi everyone,
My netback version of server is HARDWARE HP9000-800
VERSION NetBackup 4.5FP_

I aborted the backup in netbackup. But vmoprcmd status is showing tapes on drive.
When the backup runs other drives are used.
The o/p of the vmoprcmd status is :-
Drv Type Control User Label RecMID ExtMID Ready Wr.Enbl. ReqId
0 hcart TLD root Yes CB1128 CB1128 Yes Yes 0
1 hcart TLD - No - -
2 hcart TLD - No - -
3 hcart TLD root Yes CB0049 CB0049 Yes Yes 1
4 hcart DOWN-TLD - No - -
5 hcart TLD root Yes CB0216 CB0216 Yes Yes 3
6 hcart DOWN-TLD - No - -
7 hcart TLD - No - -
8 hcart TLD - No - -
9 hcart TLD - No - -
10 hcart TLD - No - -
11 hcart TLD - No - -
12 hcart TLD root Yes CB0699 CB0699 Yes Yes 2
13 hcart TLD root Yes CB1243 CB1243 Yes Yes 0
14 hcart TLD root Yes CB0139 CB0139 Yes Yes 1
15 hcart TLD - No - -

[sachit patil]

So How can we update the status of those filled media tape drive.

[Dave La Mar]

Let's start with -
1. Why are some drives in a down state?
2. What drives that are showing tapes are you questioning?
3. Is there, indeed, a tape in the drive(s) in question?

The drive status may be checked via a script and the status changed accordingly. We have a script that looks for down drives hourly and will up the drive status for a given host.

Help me out on the above questions and I'll see if I can assist.

Regards,

-dl

[VK2COT]

Hello,

It looks like the cancelled jobs caused some corruption.

What does job summary show:

bpdbjobs -summary

As well, what are the current NetBackup processes:

bpps -a

And some more ideas:

a) You should use robtest to check if the
tapes are still in the drives.

At times, you need to unload them manually.

b) Your version of NetBackup is a bit old.
Nevertheless, you might need to
reset the tape drive sometimes. For example,
to reset drive 1:

vmoprcmd -reset 1

c) What is the status of tape drive cleaning:

tpclean -l

d) To check the status of tape drives from
the media manager perspective:

tpconfig -d

e) To check all NetBackup servers have
consistent setup:

mmcrawl

f) Also, check the status of the tapes.
For example:

vmquery -m CB0049

If you just want to inventory your library and update status use one of the following
methods:

1. If using the Java or NT GUIs, start Media
and Device Management, click on the Media
Manager that hosts the robot you wish to
inventory.

Then select Inventory Robot from the Actions
menu. Then select the robot on the host you
wish to inventory and select Show contents of
robot and Start to obtain an inventory.

2. If using xvmadm, select Robots, Use Inventory to Update Volume Information.
Then select the robot on the host you wish
to inventory and select Show Robot Contents to obtain an inventory.

3. Command vmupdate. For example:

vmupdate -rn -rt [-rh ]

where tld is the library name...

4. Command vmcheckxxx:

vmcheckxxx -rt -rn -list

Depending on the status of your NetBackup daemons, sometimes even restarting them is
necessary.

Cheers,

VK2COT