Dec 18
I’ve observed the following issue on Media Agents on Linux with MTWEOFI support turned on in omnirc (to optimize performance) when running recent versions of Data Protector such as A.09.09_116. While the first write operation to a blank or expired media will succeed an append operation to a tape by the Linux Media Agent will generate …
Oct 02
Recently I had to troubleshoot an issue where loading and unloading tape drives in a tape library was causing trouble. Parallel operations executed on the same library changer device caused a subset of the operations to fail leading to aborted sessions. A Linux Media Agent controlling the library changer reported the following error. [Normal] From: …
Aug 19
Physical tape drives are a precious resource in today’s fast growing data centers. If you’re running backups or copies to physical tape drives performance is key. I did some research on this topic based on a customer request. They reported that backups on Windows clients where much faster compared to Linux clients when writing directly …
Feb 28
Starting with Data Protector A.09.05 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 and 7.1 is now a supported Cell Manager platform. But running the regular installation procedure on a fresh RHEL 7.1 system does not work, even with all requirements met. [root@linux ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.1 (Maipo) [root@linux ~]# uname -a Linux jetlnx01.godyo.int …
May 28
I just stumbled across an issue introduced with Data Protector A.08.00 and the new PostgreSQL database on clustered Cell Managers running on Linux and HP-UX. It’s related to restoration of IDB configuration files back to the shared disk. As you might know, parts of the Data Protector installation are stored on shared disk for a clustered configuration. The directory structure remains the same, but symlinks …
May 10
IDB restore with Data Protector 8 and later is really straight forward. It allows a much more granular recovery than in previous versions, since it’s done using a fully featured module instead of a file system hot-backup. You’re able to restore the IDB (PostgreSQL database) including log file recovery, DCBF files and configuration files individually or all together …
May 09
This post will show you how to re-initialize the Internal Database of Data Protector 8 or later to start from scratch without the need for re-installation. This was quite simple on previous versions and needs to be adjusted for the new PostgreSQL database and JBoss application server. These instructions will work on Linux and HP-UX. If I find a proper …
Sep 04
There are situations in which you receive test modules or quick fixes from HP support to resolve a specific issue in your environment. Even if they provide instructions on how to apply them, I found the following general procedure working quite well for Linux clients and cell managers. Upload the fix to the client system …
Aug 14
Integrating Debian or Debian-based Linux clients (e.g. Ubuntu) into a Data Protector cell could be a pain, if you have more than a bunch of them. Patch rollout and release upgrades will even take more time if you poke around with alien to convert the Data Protector rpm into deb format. There are some simple requirements …
Jul 22
There are cases in with you need to apply GA patches to a UNIX client and you don’t have an Data Protector UNIX IS (Installation Server) available. This is worse, because the patches are designed to update an installation server only. The following procedure will help you out. Instead of applying the patches to an …