Re: [Networker] Restarting failed groups

If a client fails in a group...through the GUI, you can restart that
group, it will display that it is backing up x clients in Group x, but
it will only try to backup the client that failed in the group.  It
worked this way for 6.x on UNIX and 7.2.1 on Windows.  Yes, this is
manual.

Kathleen 


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On Behalf Of Darren Dunham
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 10:49 AM
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Subject: Re: [Networker] Restarting failed groups


> I apologize if this has been dealt with before, but it's not quite 
> clear from the manual what happens in this case. I think, like Veritas
with
> classes,
> a failed client in a group causes a group as a whole to fail, and if
> autorestart is set then the whole group will be re-run, rather than
the
> sole client which has failed.

I don't think that's how it works.

'autorestart' allows an incomplete group to be continued after the
server comes up.  So it shouldn't affect a completed group at all.  It
doesn't try to re-run a failed client.

I imagine it looks at the 'work list' and runs anything there.  So if
the server reboots in the middle of a group, only the jobs that hadn't
finished are restarted.  (A client failure that has hit the retry limit
would be assumed to have finished).

> Of course, one can run `savegrp -c quux Group' and this seems to do 
> the job, but is there an automatic way to have this done?

I don't know of one.  

-- 
Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
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