If you started having problems after upgrading your tape drivers or tape drive firmwares like this:
“Missing Path” or “Unused element address”
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:
1. Inventory a robot (then update)
/usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmupdate -rt robot_type -rn robot_number -list (robot_type is tld etc…)
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> }
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 Read the rest of this entry »
If you are getting an error like this on a windows 2008 system while trying to connect through netbackup ms-sql client…
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.
If you are having an error like this, try the following:
Link your library against netbackup
Switch to user oracle
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.
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.
Number of cleanings left on a cleaning tape?
vmquery -m <cleaning tape #>
C:\>vmquery -m CLN007
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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 group: 00_000_TLD
vault name: —
vault sent date: —
vault return date: —
vault slot: —
vault session id: —
vault container id: -
created: 7/11/2008 6:29:48 PM
assigned: —
last mounted: 8/11/2008 8:20:22 AM
first mount: 7/11/2008 7:17:04 PM
expiration date: —
cleanings left: 27
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Additional Logging
Add
VERBOSE = x
line to bp.conf, where x is the number to set how verbose the logs will be.
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