Hello Douglas
I work with Veritas Netbackup 3.4 and STK 9714 libraries with
DLT 7000 drives.
I am not sure your problem originates from the Breecehill
library.
I experience very similar problems to what you described, so I
will write down freely some points I can think of.
1. Did the problems start when you upgraded to 3.4 , or have
you experienced such problems prior to using 3.4 as well ?
2. Drives are brought down if they experience 3 i/o errors
within 12 hours. Check the following places to see if this occur
1. Media log report ( invoke it from xbpadm->reports )
2. /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/bptm/log.<date>
3. /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/bpbrm/log.<date>
4. /var/adm/messages
In all these log files grep for DOWN or Down - some
lines before or after it will describe the reason for bringing the
drives down
3. If you change passowrd on the netapps you have to report
this change to Veritas NetBackup using
/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/set_ndmp_attr command. If you fail to do it the
drives go down.
Hope this helps
Please let me know.
Best Regards
Nachshon Yeshurun
Motorola Semiconductor
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> ct: Veritas Netbackup 3.4 for Solaris & Breecehill Q6.210 DLT Library
> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 09:44:47 MST
> From: Douglas Ritschel <Douglas.Ritschel(a)tddny.fujitsu.com>
> To: "toasters(a)mathworks.com" <toasters(a)mathworks.com>
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> Does anyone have experience with Veritas Netbackup 3.4 for Solaris and
> a
> Breecehill Q6.210 DLT Library?
>
> We have a Breecehill Q6.210 with 6 Quantum DLT 7000 drives in it. The
> first two drives are daisy chained to a NetApp 740. The second two are
> daisy chained to the robot, which is connected to a Sun 450, running
> Solaris 2.6. The third pair of drives are daisy chained to a NetApp
> 760.
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> The problem, is that when I come in every Monday morning, after the
> our
> Full backups are scheduled to run, 4 of the 6 drives are reported as
> being down in Veritas Device Monitor. The 4 drives that are down are
> not
> the same every week. To get the backups going again, I have to
> shutdown
> the Veritas daemons, reboot the Library, reinventory the Library and
> Verites, then restart the backups that did not complete.
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> The following day, after some of the backups completed, some of the
> drives are down again, and I have to repeat the process.
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