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Re: [Networker] files inside /nsr/tmp during savegrp get deleted

2004-03-29 12:00:59
Subject: Re: [Networker] files inside /nsr/tmp during savegrp get deleted
From: Stan Horwitz <stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 12:00:46 -0500
During the time those sg. files grow large, "tail -f" one of them and see
what they say. Look at the messages and daemon.log files in /nsr/logs too.
Between those three files, you might find the cause of the problem.

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Ty Young wrote:

>Server:  Solaris 8, NetWorker 7.1
>Clients:  multiple UNIX platforms, NetWorker 6.1.x and higher
>
>I am seeing a strange behavior wherein a given client's full backup of 180-
>200 GB will progress for several hours, then -- without any warning --
>stop and then restart from 0.
>
>I have already done the usual debugging steps such as checking for network
>collisions/retries, savegroup inactivity timeout (mine is set to 0), etc.
>
>One thing I have noticed is that files under /nsr/tmp/
>called "sg.<group>.<client>.<number>" appear to get quite large (i.e. >=
>500 MB) and then, after a period of time, they go away.  Maybe not so
>coincidently, it is these same clients' backups which restart.  There's a
>*related* Knowledgebase article out there on Legato's website, but (a)
>supposedly this problem is resolved in 7.1 (according to the fixed bugs
>list) and (b) the circumstances I'm seeing don't match 100% with the
>knowledgebase article.
>
>My /nsr fs has 140 GB of capacity but is only 40% utilized, so I don't
>believe there are capacity constraints here.
>
>Anybody know what causes these files to get deleted?  Has anyone else
>experienced this problem?
>
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