I have to agree, the issue is that they are opening the robot.  There is
a reason that the CAP was created.  Just insert the tapes into to the
CAP and run an inventory of the robot with the option to "empty the cap"
marked.


-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Justin
Piszcz
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 9:18 AM
To: Dave Markham
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Identify drives in use



On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Dave Markham wrote:

> Justin Piszcz wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Dave Markham wrote:
>>
>>> Netbackup 5.0MP7 Solaris9
>>>
>>> Anyone know how to identify from command line what drives are in 
>>> use, or what tapes are in use while a job is running.
>>>
>>> We have an issue where ops keep opening the jukebox and changing 
>>> tapes while jobs are running. The job is fine as the L700 library 
>>> just suspends writes but the problem is they fill slots up which are

>>> destination slots of tapes in use. Once the tapes have finished and 
>>> a new tape is required to continue the job the old tape cannot be 
>>> put back into its slot as it has some tape in it.
>>>
>>> I therefore sometimes need to manually move the tapes to another 
>>> slot using robtest. Issue is a lot of the time the backup job is 
>>> still running and i dont want to unload the tapes in use so i need 
>>> to identify them.
>>>
>>> I have been using iostat -xnd 2 10 |grep rmt and seeing which are 
>>> written to and then double checking with the gui the tape ids, but 
>>> i'd like a nice netbackup command to just say tapes being written to

>>> at that moment in time.
>>>
>>> Cheers
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>>
>> How to see what drives are in use? vmoprcmd -d ds
>>
> Thanks.
>
> Problem with this command is it shows tapes in all the drives due to 
> the problem i mentioned in my mail. Tapes are in drives due to not 
> being able to move back to destination slots. I need to confirm the 
> drives which are in use for the current job(s) running. Normally its 
> just one job running see and as im using ITC 2 drives will be in use. 
> I need to determine these so i can then safely move tapes out of the
other drives.
>
> Cheers
>

>> I therefore sometimes need to manually move the tapes to another slot

>> using robtest. Issue is a lot of the time the backup job is still 
>> running and i dont want to unload the tapes in use so i need to
identify them.

Read more closely, that is your problem!  If you do not re-inventory in
NetBackup -AND/OR- you put the tape in a slot that was already kept
vacant for a tape that's in the drive, you're going to have problems.

Justin.
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