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media manager found wrong tape in drive(93)

Written on 16 November 2009 – 18:30 by savas

When you want to label your tapes, you faced with the following error:

Reference: http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/265914.htm

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incorrect media found in drive index 0

Written on 16 November 2009 – 18:26 by savas

You wanted to change your Media ID Generation rules after adding your Tape Cartridges, and after re-inventorying your tapes, you started facing an error like the following:

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ORA-27054: NFS file system where the file is created or resides is not mounted with correct options

Written on 04 November 2009 – 17:26 by savasirez

If you see the following error when trying to restore your Oracle backups (through RMAN):

ORA-27054: NFS file system where the file is created or resides is not mounted with correct options
Additional information: 2

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Having Missing Path Errors on Tape Drives (Windows)

Written on 14 October 2009 – 19:35 by savasirez

If you started having problems after upgrading your tape drivers or tape drive firmwares like this:

Missing Path” or “Unused element address

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EXIT STATUS 116: VxSS authentication failed

Written on 13 July 2009 – 16:51 by savasirez

bprestore failed with the following error after enabling VxSS authentication.

http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/276755.htm

Client for NFS fails to start

Written on 03 July 2009 – 15:03 by savasirez

After Installing “Microsoft Service for NFS” to your client,  you cant start “Client for NFS” service.

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ORA-28001: the password has expired

Written on 29 June 2009 – 11:48 by savas

If you are facing a problem in your RMAN backups:

ORA-28001: the password has expired

As stated, your rman user’s password has expired. You should either change the password, and of course change password in every RMAN script as well.

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Server name not found in the NetBackup configuration

Written on 09 June 2009 – 14:49 by savasirez

This is a tip list for the following error:

server name not found in the NetBackup configuration

1. You were trying to expire a media from emm database:

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Exchange database recovery may have failed

Written on 31 May 2009 – 12:48 by savasirez

If you are having an error like the following when trying to restore your exchange databases:

05/31/2009 11:24:48 – Warning bpbrm (pid=14316) from client exchangeServer: WRN – Exchange database recovery may have failed. Please check the event log for further details.
05/31/2009 11:27:02 – end reading; read time: 0:03:36
05/31/2009 11:27:03 – Warning bpbrm (pid=14316) from client exchangeServer: WRN – Exchange database recovery may have failed. Please check the event log for further details.
05/31/2009 11:27:04 – Error bpbrm (pid=14316) client restore EXIT STATUS 185: tar did not find all the files to be restored
05/31/2009 11:27:04 – restored from image exchange2_1243565471; restore time: 0:04:24
05/31/2009 11:27:15 – end Restore; elapsed time 0:21:45
the requested operation was partially successful (1)

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Install was interrupted before it could be completed

Written on 29 May 2009 – 15:22 by savasirez

If you are having the following error, “Veritas NetBackup Master Server install was interrupted before it could be completed” when trying to update to 6.5.4:

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Portmap Service Not Running

Written on 15 May 2009 – 15:15 by savasirez

You want to have a granular mailbox backup from exchange. For this, you installed the “Microsoft Services for NFS” package from Windows Components, but it doesnt start Portmap service when you issue “net start portmap” and failes. What can be the reason?

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bpbkar: ERR – bpend_notify returned 2

Written on 14 May 2009 – 00:15 by savasirez

If you configured bpstart_notify and bpend_notify scripts and you can not have the working. Check “bpbkar” log directory.

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NetBackup Log Directories

Written on 29 April 2009 – 01:13 by savasirez

Netbackup log directories should be created under /usr/openv/netbackup/logs directory.

admin – Keeps the logs of adminstrative commands
bpbrm
– Keeps the logs of backup and restore manager
bpcd
- Keeps the logs of client daemon
bpdbjobs
- Keeps the logs of database manager program process
bpdm
- Keeps the logs of disk manager process
bpjava-msvc
- Keeps the logs of Java application server authentication service
bprd
- Keeps the logs of request daemon process
bpsched
- Keeps the logs of scheduler process that runs on master servers
bptm
- Keeps the logs of media management process
bparchive - Keeps the logs of archive program
bpbackup - Keeps the logs of backup program
bpbkar - Keeps the logs of program that generates golden images
bplist - Keeps the logs of program that lists backed up and archived files
user-ops - directory for use by Java programsbp – client user interface process

Tape Problems

Written on 28 April 2009 – 13:43 by savasirez

If you encounter problems with tapes double check that the tape was not frozen before.

on Master Server -> Media, right click on the tape and if selectable, click on “Unfreeze”, and try again.

snapshot creation failed, status 156

Written on 27 April 2009 – 16:32 by savasirez

If you are facing with an error like the following:

4/27/2009 4:59:32 PM – Critical bpbrm(pid=7716) from client test.local: FTL – snapshot creation failed, status 156
4/27/2009 4:59:32 PM – end Flash Backup Windows , Create Snapshot; elapsed time: 00:00:08
4/27/2009 4:59:32 PM – end writing
Status 156

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Robot inventory failed: Unable to open robotic path (201)

Written on 20 April 2009 – 13:09 by savasirez

If you are facing with an error:

“Robot inventory failed: Unable to open robotic path (201).”

The causes can be: (Reference: http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/269409.htm)

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Limit has been reached for requested resource

Written on 13 April 2009 – 11:53 by savasirez

If you are facing an error like this:

limit has been reached for requested resource NBU_POLICY.MAXJOBS.CatalogBackup

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ORA-16038 ORA-19809 ORA-00312 errors

Written on 02 April 2009 – 16:50 by savasirez

When trying to startup an oracle instance on a Catalog Database, if you are facing errors like the following:

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Cant Install VRTSpbx (ICS)

Written on 28 March 2009 – 15:18 by savasirez

If you face an error like the following:
The reason is probably that, you copied the files from a windows machines and windows removed the permissions from the files…
Try one of these:
Mount the iso and install from that mount point or
burn the iso, mount and install from that or
mount iso on some other capable unix system, tar the files and untar them in the system you want to install…

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Restore must be resumed prior to first image expiration

Written on 27 February 2009 – 15:29 by savasirez

If you are facing an error while you are trying to restore: “Restore must be resumed prior to first image expiration on

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