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  1. Martin999

    Media positioning errors

    Hi Guys, Anyone got any ideas on the following : Media positioning errors on a VTL. "too many daya blocks written" error ... Positioning check shows expected and actual position hundreds of blocks apart (actual > expected). Apart from the no / size data buffer settings in NBU, anyone aware...
  2. Martin999

    Cannot phase 2 import

    Any ideas guys, Cannot complete a phase 2 import for a backup image that is on one tape ... Phase 1 completes successfully. From bptm log I see read_backup: successfully read (import) backup id ... From admin log ... bpimport: Imported 0 of 1 images successfully. bpimport: Imported 1 of 1...
  3. Martin999

    Tapes not expiring

    Hi Guys, Any ideas, I noticed a few tapes on one of our servers that should have expired but haven't ... The volretent (mminfo) showsed 25/8, but they are not showing as expired in nsrjb ??? Now, I could force them, but I'm more concerned as to why they're not doing what they should. Thanks...
  4. Martin999

    Numpty question or two ...

    Hi guys, Sorry to be a pain, very new to networking and browsing the posts here for background knowledge ... Due to changes at work, swapping to networks seemed a good way to ensure a position, + new experience. Couple of things I'm not completly understanding, pls. don't fall off your chairs...
  5. Martin999

    mminfo mount issue

    Guys, Anyone noticed this ... On a couple of our servers (only checked to) I noticed some volumes taht although only 3 or so months old had a very high number of mounts reported from mminfo. I did a quick test and discovered that with each mount operation the count actually increased by 2 ...
  6. Martin999

    media verification issues

    Guys, Can anyone shed some light on causes of media verification errors. Running on ... Solaris and HP servers / storage nodes, >networker 7.1 and IBM LTO drives, 1,2 and 3. Aware of some causes, eg. scsi probes, tape issue, drive issue but does anyone have any idea how to sort what's what...
  7. Martin999

    Networker volume issue

    OK, bit stuck on this ... I think it's a corrupt media database, and the fix is to delete the problem volumes and relabel. Would appreciate any help though in case I'm wrong. In nutshell, one particular jb on a networker server refuses to mount a number of its volumes, has a go, then gives...
  8. Martin999

    Media

    Hi Guys, Do you have any recommendations as to which brand of media to use. Thx Martin
  9. Martin999

    Don't laugh, but could someone explain ...

    Hi guys, Having a brain dead moment, could some explain the following for me please. I use the following quite often ... tar cf - . | (cd todir; tar xfp -) .. and suddenly realised that whilst I understand the first bit (tar cf - .) as "set the tar file" to standard out, I can't quite get...
  10. Martin999

    Boot issues with an attached USB external drive

    Hi Guys, Can someone help - thanks. PC - AMD / AMIBIOS refuses to boot with a Philips External USB drive attached. System detects DVD and SATA drive, then says detecting USB device and hangs. Occassionally, it does actually boot with it attached. Other thing I noticed, is that in one USB...
  11. Martin999

    logical AND with grep

    Guys, Don't laugh ... Have a couple of variables, would like to grep for VAR1 AND var2 in a file. AWK is a possible, but need to pass the variables into it ... grep is possible, grep var1 filename |grep var2 .. but not neat ... and better ways ??? Thanks, Martin
  12. Martin999

    awk help

    Hi guys, could someone help me ... Got a function, see below, I would like to search using the line " if (/warning/ || /error/ || /emer/) " I was hoping that the || would mean OR, but not appearing to work. Anyhelp greatfully received. Martin grep "loading volume" $(echo $DAEMONLOG) |...
  13. Martin999

    media errors

    Hi guys, Can I have your advice : Using Networker 7.1.3 on HPUX / IBM silos / LTO drives. We back up a lot of data daily (about 50TB) and therefore see a number of media errors : eg. 07/16/05 22:58:06 nsrd: media warning: verification of volume "BB0210L1", volid 3648939265 failed, can not...
  14. Martin999

    Networker inquire issues

    Guys, Could someone help ... thanks, The JNI driver has been upgraded from 5.0.x to 5.3.1.3 - the sd, st and jnic146x.conf files were saved and then copied back after the upgrade (reinstall) of the new driver. Box was them re-booted. As below, the inquire command picks the correct devices and...
  15. Martin999

    Networker recover

    Guys, Hi there - can someone help me with this one ... I'm just recovering a Solaris server that has crashed. Booted of CD to mini-root, network is configured and I have exported slice 0 (root) to the backup server using NFS. I used nwrecover to select root and re-directed to the mounted...

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