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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Having Missing Path Errors on Tape Drives (Windows)
Posted by savasirez on October 14th, 2009
Server name not found in the NetBackup configuration
Posted by savasirez on June 9th, 2009
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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No Comments »NetBackup Tips (Command line)
Posted by savasirez on April 29th, 2009
1. Inventory a robot (then update) /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmupdate -rt robot_type -rn robot_number -list (robot_type is tld etc…)
ORA-01861: literal does not match format string
Posted by savasirez on January 6th, 2009
When trying to restore a database to a spesific date, if you’re having an error like this: RMAN> run { 1> ALLOCATE CHANNEL chtape TYPE ‘SBT_TAPE’; 2> set until time ’2008-11-05:14:30:00′; 3> SEND ‘NB_ORA_CLIENT=realdb_host,NB_ORA_POLICY=rman_realdb,NB_ORA_SERV=veritas,NB_ORA_SCHED=Default-Application-Backup’; 4> RESTORE CONTROLFILE; 5> RELEASE CHANNEL chtape; 6> }
RMAN-03009, ORA-19554, ORA-27211 Errors
Posted by savasirez on December 29th, 2008
If you are having the following Oracle errors on a linux system: RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-03009: failure of allocate command on t1 channel at 09/22/2004 11:03:58 ORA-19554: error allocating device, device type: SBT_TAPE, device name: ORA-27211: Failed to load Media Management Library
Posted in NetBackup Tips, Tips, Troubleshooting Tags: channel, libobk, libobk.so, linux oracle tips, NetBackup Tips, oracle tips, sbt_tape, tape tips No Comments »“Application connection failed for servername” error on Windows 2008 MS-Sql Client
Posted by savasirez on December 29th, 2008
If you are getting an error like this on a windows 2008 system while trying to connect through netbackup ms-sql client…
Posted in NetBackup Tips, Tips, Troubleshooting Tags: ms-sql, ms-sql on windows 2008, ms-sql tips, nbu tips, NetBackup Tips, Tips 2 Comments »Howto Convert an Oracle RMAN Template to Script
Posted by savasirez on December 24th, 2008
If you are having difficulty in a stuation like this: You have a unix based netbackup master server and have an windows server with oracle that you want to backup through rman catalog backup, but you are unable to use the templates created by the “Backup, Archive and Restore” application on windows.
NetWorker: Cannot contact nsrexecd service on HOSTNAME, Service not available.
Posted by savasirez on December 23rd, 2008
If you are having an error like this, try the following: Link your library against netbackup Switch to user oracle
Posted in Troubleshooting Tags: backup error, NetBackup Tips, nsrexecd error, oracle error, rman error, service not available No Comments »Oracle Backup started but didnt continue with Application Backup
Posted by savasirez on December 18th, 2008
If you face a problem like this: You are running oracle on a solaris machine with two interfaces. You created the script and it runs flawlesly on another machine. When you start a backup, the backup schedule starts but doesnt pass to Application Backup schedule, looks like its frozen.
Duplicate Barcodes
Posted by savasirez on December 5th, 2008
If you insert a tape with barcode and this barcode is already used in the tape library, you will end up with “barcode mismatch” error and you tape will not be inserted to the emm database, and not media id will be assigned.
Posted in NetBackup Tips, Tips, Troubleshooting Tags: eject media, eject tape, NetBackup Tips, robtest, Tips No Comments »Cleaning Tips
Posted by savasirez on December 1st, 2008
Number of cleanings left on a cleaning tape? vmquery -m <cleaning tape #> C:\>vmquery -m CLN007 ====================================== media ID: CLN007 media type: 1/2″ cleaning tape 3 (25) barcode: CLN107L3 media description: — volume pool: None (0) robot type: TLD – Tape Library DLT (8) robot number: 0 robot slot: 4 robot control host: Netbackup volume [...]
Posted in NetBackup Tips, Tips Tags: cleaning, cleaning drives, cleaning tape drives, netbackup, NetBackup Tips, Tips No Comments »Netbackup Logging Tips
Posted by savasirez on December 1st, 2008
Additional Logging Add VERBOSE = x line to bp.conf, where x is the number to set how verbose the logs will be.
Posted in NetBackup Tips, Tips Tags: logs, netbackup, netbackup logs, NetBackup Tips, Tips No Comments »Netbackup Tips on UN*X machines
Posted by savasirez on November 30th, 2008
1.2 log directories must be monitored. /usr/openv/logs(Low level logs), /usr/openv/netbackup/logs. These logs can get very big.
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