Archive for the ‘Tape Library’ Category
If you have a lot of tape drives connected to your host/server, sometimes its not easy to know the tape drives order between tape library and drive order on host. Lets say, all tape drive order on tape library and host are starting from 0 (zero).You try to mount cartridge to tape drive number 6 [...]
Sun StorageTek SL8500 is powerful tape library which enables 24×7 availability with fully redundant and replaceable robotics. StorageTek SL8500 modular library system is Sun extreme machine in storage. No matter how big you are or fast you grow, it totally accommodates your offline tape needs for data backup, archiving, and protection. It’s modular and can [...]
As we may know already that, tape device are in “/dev/rmt” directory. Actually tapes creates symbolic links in the “/dev/rmt” directory to the actual tape device special files under the “/devices” directory tree. tapes searches the kernel device tree to see what tape devices are attached to the system. Each tape LUN seen by the [...]
AUTOMATED CARTRIDGE SYSTEM LIBRARY SOFTWARE (ACSLS) v7.1 COMMAND LINE GUIDE: acsss_config run configuration script bpdb.acsss backup acsls database cmd_proc_shell provide shell access to the cmd_proc config drives <panel_id> dynamically enables the addition, changes or delete drive type db_command start|stop start or stop database db_export.sh -f db_file to migrate acsls database to another version db_import.sh -f [...]
For many reason, I re-post again about this issue; How to restore LTO1 or 2 on LTO 3 Drive… The procedure is as follows: Inject the tape into the ACS library, then perform a robot inventory of the ACS library. After the volume database is updated, the RobotType of the media will change to “ACS” [...]
In case one of our customer had drive replacement it’s mean that serial number also change. So in order to update the serial number in SSO environment. Here’s the steps. 1. tpautoconf -report_disc , this command will list what device that had been missing or found. 2. tpautoconf -replace_drive drive_name –path drive_path, this command will [...]
Hardware : Sun Storagetek L40 with SCSI LVD/SE. 2 drive : Seagate LT01 and SDLT 320 SCSI ID : Robotic = 6 Drive 0 = 0 Drive 1 = 1 ——— 1. run command : lsdev –C –c adapter (to determine the logical indetifier for the SCSI controler) # lsdev -C -c adapter ent0 Available [...]
Note: prefix command is customer dependent—a period is the default D A —— DISPLAY ACS INFORMATION D DR ACS(00) DET —— DISPLAY ACS DRIVES D V 550001 —— DISPLAY VOLUME D LSM 000 —— DISPLAY LSM D CDS —— DISPLAY CDS(CONTROL DATA SET) D ALL —— DISPLAY ALL INFORMATION MOD 000 ON —— MODIFY LSM [...]
First you need to make sure that there are no valid images on the tape that you want. NetBackup\bin\admincmd\bpimmedia -mediaid -L If there are no images that you need, expire the tape: NetBackup\bin\admincmd\bpexpdate -m -d 0 -host -force This expires the images in the media database which resides specifically on the media server. Verify that [...]
Understanding the SCSI Passthru Drivers NetBackup Media Manager provides its own driver for communicating with SCSI-controlled robotic peripherals. This driver is called the SCSA (Generic SCSI passthru driver), also referred to as the sg driver. To manage the sg driver Perform the following steps as the root user. 1. Determine if an sg driver is [...]
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