Veritas Netbackup on Solaris 8

From: Bhavesh Shah (bshah_at_citadon.com)
Date: 08/17/04

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    Hi Gurus,

    I am new to Veritas Netbackup 5.1 and currently evaluating the product.

    I installed Veritas Netbackup 5.1 on Solaris 8 box connected to Sun
    StorEDGE L1000 tape Library with two DLT tape drives and it did detected
    Robot and DLT drives.

    The problem is whenever I try to backup it mounts the tape in the DLT
    drive and hangs there forever. After sometime it downs the DLT drive
    with the status "DOWN--TLD" and sits there forever. The logs on the
    Netbackup gives an error code 219 which states that specific storage
    unit is unavailable and gives the following solution to resolve the
    same:

    1) Verify that schedule specifies the correct storage unit and
    storage unit exists - I did verified and it does shows the correct
    storage unit.

    2) Verify that Media Manager Device daemon (ltid) is running -
    Verified that its running

    3) Verify that Maximum concurrent drives attribute is not set to 0
    - I did verified its been set to 2

    4) Verify that at least one drive is in UP state - Yes both drives
    were in UP state until mount process which brings it down.

    5) Verify that robot no. and host in storage unit configuration
    matches what is specified in the media manager device configuration -
    robot no. 0 and host name zeno both matches.

    6) Verify that master server can communicate with bpcd process on
    the server that has storage unit - This server the only master as well
    as media server where L1000 is connected.

    Has anyone experienced this with Veritas Netbackup? Any help will be
    greatly appreciated.

    Looking forward to hear from you Gurus.

    TIA

    B
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