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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume II
  3. Reference topics
  4. How NetBackup reserves drives
  5. About the SPC-2 SCSI reserve process
  6. About forcing a release of an unavailable HBA's SPC-2 reservation
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume II

About forcing a release of an unavailable HBA's SPC-2 reservation

To force a release of an unavailable HBA's SPC-2 reservation, use the following NetBackup vmoprcmd command and option:

vmoprcmd -crawlreleasebyname drive_name

This option requests that all hosts that are registered to use the drive issue SPC-2 SCSI release commands to the drive.

Issue the vmoprcmd command on the master server. Alternatively issue the command on a media server and use the -h option of the command to specify the master server. The NetBackup EMM service allocates devices (that is, the DA host or device allocation host).

Note:

Use this command after a PEND status appears in the NetBackup Administration Console Device Monitor. However, do not issue this command during backups.

More information about using the vmoprcmd command is available.

See the NetBackup Commands Reference Guide, available at the following URL:

http://www.veritas.com/docs/DOC5332

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