Why netbackup media frozen

So you ran a test and it worked, you re-use the tape and it craps out a long backup the next night. How good a decision was that? Worse, it fails on a restore two years from now when you Really Need That Data.

Saving fifty bucks on a new tape was worth losing data? Just out of curiosity, for all those stating to check the logs, to which logs are you referring? Reply Quote. EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Frozen Tapes Just out of curiosity, for all those stating to check the logs, to which logs are you referring? I've talked offline to half a dozen people about this in the last week; everybody has their own special places to look.

The Windows equivalent seems to be the Event Viewer. This has to happen since the operating system and its driver facilities are what talks to the drive; NetBackup is an app talking to the OS's facilities.

The bptm log. NetBackup's report say, status 84, write error is a restatement of what the OS told NetBackup, condensed into an 83 open , 84 write , 85 read , 86 position or 87 close. I also habitually peruse the Problems and sometimes the All Log Entries report for the previous 24 hours, sorting it by description and skimming it to look for the unusual. Maybe these changed between 5. Not sure if it exists on Windows.

Newer Topic Older Topic. You can unsubscribe at any time. Thanks a lot. So I have 17 frozen media, 7 full media and 2 active right now. My doubt is can I reuse the media?

They are used for weekly backup and has been set a retention period of 2 weeks. Is there any way we can erase them and reuse them?

Any help is appreciated. This should erase the media. I have done that. This is the corresponding output from the command , bpmedialist. I unfroze medias SS1 and SS1 and the command retruned without an error message. But after a refresh also the unfrozen media does not coming anywhrere.

Any idea what am I missing? No redistribution. I did inventory from backup software, restarted daemons, and did a tape inventory. And the media shows in the inventory list. But it is not coming in the media summary and media list. Clean the drives that are freezing the media according to the manufacturer's suggestions. Frozen media is one of the first symptoms of a dirty drive. Check for the tape device errors that the operating system logs or the device driver reports.

If any are found, follow the hardware manufacturer's recommendations for this type of error. Ensure that the tape drives appear on the hardware compatibility list as supported for NetBackup. This list is located on the following Veritas Support website:. Ensure that the media is supported for use with the tape drive by the tape drive vendor. An unexpected media is found in the drive.

NetBackup requests a media ID to be mounted in a drive. This error occurs if the robot needs to be inventoried, or if barcodes have been physically changed on the media.

Another NetBackup installation previously wrote to the media with different barcode rules. If the backups have expired, you must import the backups first. It's the same again, essentially, for suspended media: " You cannot use a suspended volume for backups until retention periods for all backups on it have expired.

At that time, NetBackup deletes the suspended volume from the NetBackup media catalog and unassigns it from NetBackup. A suspended volume is available for restores. Marianne Moderator. A frozen volume never expires, even after the retention period ends for all backups on the media.

Handy NetBackup Links. Expired media cannot be written to even after expiration. So, if needed, you can restore the data,even after expiration by importing it. A suspended media will not allow any backups to be written to it UNTIL it expires, at which point it will become un-assigned. If it;s written to, it cannot be imported. Frozen media is never de-assigned, and cannot be written to, so even if the "image" expired, the data is still on the tape if it's not damaged and can be imported to the database and restored.

I think it IS possible to restore data that has not been overwritten as long as you do not overwrite all the fragments. BR, DP. Now I can see where you were going!