LoneTar Airbag discs stopped working...

[google account]

Hiya.

I run a Sco OpenServer 5.0.6 server and it does great things.

Because it is a database server, and runs a critical application I do
a manual failover in case of disiaster with a second system that is
identically configured, both hardware and software wise.

each night we run a backup of the live server and restore it onto the
failover server. Last week, while attempting to restore the weekly
master teh Airbag Disks spat out a reject error that basically says it
can't see any device configured at /dev/rStp0 which is exactly where
the tape drive was the week earlier, and infact each week that we've
done this for the past several years.

I did a check through the boot process and the tape drive is
definitely identified by teh DPT device. IT hasn't changed ID or bus
or lun or anything either. So I am at a bit of a loss. Sadly,
somehow through all this the drives lost their OS too, when I try to
boot it give some weird fail message about the first round or first
attempt or first soemthing.

Is there anything I can do rather than build my server back from
scratch?

Another weird thing is that the LT installation on the live server
won't create fresh airbag disks for me, either.

TIA

Googleboy.

[bill]

google account wrote:

> Hiya.
>
> I run a Sco OpenServer 5.0.6 server and it does great things.
>
> Because it is a database server, and runs a critical application I do
> a manual failover in case of disiaster with a second system that is
> identically configured, both hardware and software wise.
>
> each night we run a backup of the live server and restore it onto the
> failover server. Last week, while attempting to restore the weekly
> master teh Airbag Disks spat out a reject error that basically says it
> can't see any device configured at /dev/rStp0 which is exactly where
> the tape drive was the week earlier, and infact each week that we've
> done this for the past several years.
>
> I did a check through the boot process and the tape drive is
> definitely identified by teh DPT device. IT hasn't changed ID or bus
> or lun or anything either. So I am at a bit of a loss. Sadly,
> somehow through all this the drives lost their OS too, when I try to
> boot it give some weird fail message about the first round or first
> attempt or first soemthing.

If you are using a scsi controller with diagnostic, run them now. It
sounds like there is a problem with the controller, buss, or the drive.

>
> Is there anything I can do rather than build my server back from
> scratch?
>
> Another weird thing is that the LT installation on the live server
> won't create fresh airbag disks for me, either.
>

Run diagnostics there too.

Have you asked for help from Lone-Tar ?
One of the neatest things about Lone-Tar is the 24 x 7 help that is
available for just this kind of problem.
Tech Support is 301-829-1622
have your license number handy.

> TIA
>
> Googleboy.

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