RMAN Integration with Tap drive

Dear All,
Can any body help me how to integrate RMAN with tap on HP-Unix.
Regards,

To intergrate with RMAN, you should review the install instructions of whichever 3rd party backup software you are using. After you have the software integrated, you can refer to Configuring RMAN to Make Backups to a Media Manager.

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Sys-suspend fails on Solaris 9 with tape drive present

I ran across a post by T. Kloeber (http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5109999&messageID=9374786) on the Sun developer forum on this.
I replaced my Solaris 7 SS5 with an Ultra 2 and installed Solaris 9 fresh. The external disks and tape drive are unchanged. The SS5 used to suspend properly about 95% of the time, but now the machine refuses to suspend with the tape drive connected. Log messages are:
Mar 21 16:20:13 madera cpr: [ID 535284 kern.notice] System is being suspended
Mar 21 16:20:24 madera cpr: [ID 122848 kern.warning] WARNING: Unable to suspend device st@4,0.
Mar 21 16:20:24 madera cpr: [ID 537702 kern.warning] WARNING: Device is busy or does not support suspend/resume.
Mar 21 16:20:30 madera cpr: [ID 457896 kern.notice] NOTICE: Suspend operation failed.
Mar 21 16:20:30 madera cpr: [ID 583038 kern.notice] System has been resumed.
and the system is not suspended. Is there anything i am missing on Solaris 9?
I am able to modunload the st driver, then when I attempt to suspend, the driver gets reloaded, and I get the failure above.
I ran across an E10000 service manual from 2.6 days that said that tape devices were not suspendable. They must have rethought that by Solaris 7. No idea why 9 should refuse this. I have the latest recommended patches.
TIA for any information!
TW

I ran across a post by T. Kloeber (http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5109999&messageID=9374786) on the Sun developer forum on this.
I replaced my Solaris 7 SS5 with an Ultra 2 and installed Solaris 9 fresh. The external disks and tape drive are unchanged. The SS5 used to suspend properly about 95% of the time, but now the machine refuses to suspend with the tape drive connected. Log messages are:
Mar 21 16:20:13 madera cpr: [ID 535284 kern.notice] System is being suspended
Mar 21 16:20:24 madera cpr: [ID 122848 kern.warning] WARNING: Unable to suspend device st@4,0.
Mar 21 16:20:24 madera cpr: [ID 537702 kern.warning] WARNING: Device is busy or does not support suspend/resume.
Mar 21 16:20:30 madera cpr: [ID 457896 kern.notice] NOTICE: Suspend operation failed.
Mar 21 16:20:30 madera cpr: [ID 583038 kern.notice] System has been resumed.
and the system is not suspended. Is there anything i am missing on Solaris 9?
I am able to modunload the st driver, then when I attempt to suspend, the driver gets reloaded, and I get the failure above.
I ran across an E10000 service manual from 2.6 days that said that tape devices were not suspendable. They must have rethought that by Solaris 7. No idea why 9 should refuse this. I have the latest recommended patches.
TIA for any information!
TW

RMAN integrated with Tivoli Storage Manager

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Two Node RAC Production DBs on 10.2.0.4
Platform : Solaris
RMAN is the only backup tool i've ever worked with. I've come across OTN articles which discuss TSM along with RMAN. Is there any advantage at all in using TSM with RMAN ? Or, Is it just marketing gimmick by IBM?

Our strategy:
1--Monday ------------------->Level 0 backup (1:00am)
2--Tuesday----->     Level1
3--Wednesday----->     Level1
4--Thursday------------------>Level 0 backup (1:00am)
5--Friday----->     Level1
6--Saturday----->     Level1
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Tape Drive Upgrade

I'm running a SunFire v440 with a IBM 3584 tape library. Solaris 9 is the OS and Veritas NetBackup 5.1 is the App. Currently the IBM 3584 has LTO-2 drives in it and the backup team wants to upgrade to LTO-3 drives. They are planning on using the same WWN's thinking this will make the transition easier. I've never worked with tape drives before and need to know if this is valid.
Also, to get the drives visable to Netbackup does anything have to be done at the OS level? I've reviewed the sg.conf file and don't see anything that stands out but my knowledge of this is limited.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Hi,
After changing the drives (if they are fiber native) the WWN�s will change since each fiber device has a unique WWN like a MAC. (remember zoning on the fiber switch also needs to be done to accommodate the new hardware.)
It is best to 1st unconfigure the old devices:
cfgadm �al will display the information you require to see where the drives bind to c(#)
run cfgadm �c unconfigure c(#) to remove the old tape drives from the configuration.
Now run the clean-up devfsadm �C
Replace the drives with the LTO-3 units and zone the switch accordingly unless you use a switch that makes use of VSAN.
Reboot tape library
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List the devices cfgadm �al
If all is well up to this point you are set from the OS side.
You will need to reconfigure the storage devices in Netbackup since the serial numbers of the drives are now different.
Make sure you follow the guidelines for adding the correct values for LTO3 to the two files listed below to make sure your drives perform at their peak.
/usr/openv/netbackup/db/config/NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS
/usr/openv/netbackup/db/config/SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS
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How can I connect a DLT-IV Tape drive with SCSI interface to Quad G5?

I have had no problems with my "Quantum equivalent La Cie DLT-IV Tape drive" on OSX connected to the G4 Quicksilver using an Adaptec 2930CU PCI card - but I can't move that to the G5 as it has to be PCI-Express cards as far as I can tell.
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Richard

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I have a Sun X4170 server (x84_64) running VMWare ESXi 4.0. On it I have two VM guests- my production file server running Solaris 10 U7 and a test file server running Solaris 10 U9.
The X4170 has a PCI-X LSI Logic dual external U320 parallel scsi card. I have a tape drive + auto loader cabled to the X4170. It is a Quantum branded autoloader but I believe the tape drive itself is HP. The autoloader+tape drive share a single SCSI ID (6) but have separate LUNS.
I have two choices for making this system accessible to the OS:
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- In VMWare, enable the scsi card as a pass through device. The SCSI card is then added as PCI device to the virtual machine (actually two devices since it is a dual scsi card.)
I had virtualized a single-drive tape drives with Vmware in the past.
However, when I tried I virtualize tape drive and loader, Solaris complained about the scsi id’s being invalid. I don’t think it likes two devices with a single scsi ID. Also, I think I need the backup software to see the REAL tape drive and autoloader (for inventory, changing tapes etc)
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# cfgadm -al
Ap_Id Type Receptacle Occupant Condition
c1 scsi-bus connected configured unknown
c1::dsk/c1t0d0 disk connected configured unknown
mpt1:scsi scsi-bus connected configured unknown
mpt1:scsi::rmt/0 tape connected configured unknown
mpt1:scsi::scsi/changer/c2t6d med-changer connected configured unknown
mpt2:scsi scsi-bus connected unconfigured unknown
cfgadm: Configuration administration not supported: Error: hotplug service is pr
obably not running, please use 'svcadm enable hotplug' to enable the service. Se
e cfgadm_shp(1M) for more details.
bash-3.00# mt status
/dev/rmt/0n: no tape loaded or drive offline
bash-3.00#
# svcadm enable hotplug
# cfgadm -al
Ap_Id Type Receptacle Occupant Condition
c1 scsi-bus connected configured unknown
c1::dsk/c1t0d0 disk connected configured unknown
mpt1:scsi scsi-bus connected configured unknown
mpt1:scsi::rmt/0 tape connected configured unknown
mpt1:scsi::scsi/changer/c2t6d med-changer connected configured unknown
mpt2:scsi scsi-bus connected unconfigured unknown
pcie160 scsi/hp connected configured ok
pcie161 unknown empty unconfigured unknown
pcie162 unknown empty unconfigured unknown
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The hotplug service did not exist until I installed the following patches
142934-02 SunOS 5.10_x86: failsafe patch
142910-17 SunOS 5.10_x86: kernel patch
144489-02 SunOS 5.10_x86: kernel patch
# svcadm enable hotplug
# cfgadm -al
Ap_Id Type Receptacle Occupant Condition
c1 scsi-bus connected configured unknown
c1::dsk/c1t0d0 disk connected configured unknown
c1::scsi/direct/c1t0d0 disk connected configured unknown
c4 scsi-bus connected unconfigured unknown
c5 scsi-bus connected unconfigured unknown
pcie160 scsi/hp connected configured ok
Running “devfsadm –v “ does not change anything
Any ideas? Maybe a need to update the MPT driver or is that dangerous?
Thanks

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Can I use tape drive for backup with win 2012 OS & Sybase database?

I have installed enhancement package 6 for SAP ERP 6.0 with OS windows 2012 and database sybase ASE(15.7.050). I am facing problem while taking database backup on tape drive. I want to know how to initialize tape drive in case of sybase DB and is it possible to take back-up on same. I failed to schedule backup from DB13 so now I am doing that activity by command line. So please help me to solve these issues.
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For the next step, try adding a CAPACITY parameter to your dump command as discussed at these places in the documentation.
Specifying tape capacity for dump commands
Set the Maximum Capacity for a Tape Drive
Your output above shows it was able to dump 87565594 KB before it ran out of tape,
so lets be a little conservative and try
dump database DQS to TAPE1 with capacity = 87000000, init
go
When the dump reaches that point, ASE should prompt you to pop in another new tape
and then issue the sp_volchanged procedure from a second session (it will tell you what parameters to use for sp_volchanged).
Note: once we get the dump working successfully, we can then create a logical dump device that would store the capacity value, and create a full dump configuration so you gain all the new functionality like dump history, etc.
Enhancements to dump and load
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Backup strategy with no tape drives/library

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You might also want to look at the rysnc command- that should let you back up only files that have differ between the source and destination (i.e. you could do differential backups.) So maybe you could a monthly full backup with tar to NAS or SAN, a weekly rsync incremental backup, and daily zfs snapshot that is kept for a week.

Disk V$ Tape Drive for Rman

Hi,
Os : Aix,Red hat 4.2
Db : 10
We taking rman backup which stores in Tape Drive.(It took 11 hours, incremental 0 level).due to ORA-27030 & ORA-19511,we couldn't use Tape drive temporarliy.
So we used disk for rman backup.(It took 4 hours to complete).
Which is best storage(ie fastest) for rman backup /restoration whether DISK or TAPE?
What are the factors determine it?
Thanks & regards,
VN

What is more important to you, then choose. It's simple: tape is more reliable and faster drives. At a cost of not very high volumes, they are about the same per megabyte. It - http://www.allbackup.ru/articles/article6.html - is more less actually.
Edited by: 900355 on 02.12.2011 2:49
Edited by: 900355 on 02.12.2011 2:49

Outputting to tape via MacBook with Lacie Drive?

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How to duplex archivelog with just one tape drive ?

The subject explains everything.
My company has just one tape drive, however I'm afraid to lose the only tape that contains just 1 copy of archivelog.
I've my own scripts to try simulate duplexing, but I'd like to know if someone has a problem like me and what do you do to workaround it.
Thank you very much
Marcelo Sinni

Yes, I do. I've three scripts simulating trying to obtain 3 copies of the same archivelog:
RMAN> print script ArchiveF1;
printing stored script: ArchiveF1
{allocate channel c1 type 'SBT_TAPE';
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sql "alter system archive log stop";
sql "alter system switch logfile";
sql "alter system switch logfile";
backup
format 'F1_%U.arch'
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printing stored script: ArchiveF2
{allocate channel c1 type 'SBT_TAPE';
send 'OB_MEDIA_FAMILY Oradell01-Archives-F2-A';
backup
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RMAN> print script ArchiveF3;
printing stored script: ArchiveF3
{allocate channel c1 type 'SBT_TAPE';
send 'OB_MEDIA_FAMILY Oradell01-Archives-F3-A';
backup
format 'F3_%U.arch'
(archivelog until time "TRUNC(SYSDATE+1,'DD')" NOT BACKED UP 3 TIMES delete all input);
sql "alter system archive log start";
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ArchiveF3 enable archivelog again.
To me it has worked fine but, I'd like another opinions about that.
Thanks

Ultra 20/25 with SDLT600 tape drive

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I have a customer who requires a Sun desktop with the ability to attach to Sun's SDLT600 tap drive. According to all of the configuration docs and Webdesk, this is not supported with the Ultra 20/25. Does anyone know why or if there are any plans to support this in the near future?

... and using the Spectrum SSH, the external SDLT600 peripheral
shows information on its SCSI interface, and that it is LVD/SE
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Perhaps it's time to call Sun's pre-sales techsupport.
Those Sun employees would have the best chance to get accurate information for you.
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hi,
please, can anybody tell me:
1. where i can find out whether or not a particular tape drive is compatible with my sunblade 100 workstation running solaris 9?
2. do external tape drives usually connect to the workstation's serial port?
3. what kind of specs/features should i be looking out for?
thanks in advance for your replies.
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I would imagine you could use any tape drive with your sun blade... most are connected by either scsi or fiber channel... there could be some that are network controlled... not aware of any that are controlled by serial port...
GOOGLE is a wonderful thing... try it, you will like it...
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Hi Everyone,
Backups are getting failed continously with below error.can you plese suggest me what is problem exactly
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** ***-rac-a16-001-vip.uidl1.dom:RMAN:/nsr/res/Daily_IncrDB_Backup*
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Hi Hemanth/imran,
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RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
ORA-12502: TNS:listener received no CONNECT_DATA from client
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Exiting with error:
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Any changes we need to do
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Prasanth

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