Sean

I have seen this error message before, on an HP-UX client, backup up only
local file systems. At the time we had severe perfomance problems on the
machine. It went away when the machine was running 'normal' again. I
believe it is a very confusion error message, triggered by a time-out.

Regards
     Geetam


> Date:    Mon, 3 May 1999 14:04:42 -0700
> From:    Sean Stecker <Stecker.Sean AT ORBITAL-LSG DOT COM>
> Subject: Stale NFS handle on LOCAL drive????
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> All,
>
> We have local drives on a Sun server configured as a RAID 5 Meta device.
> We receive the message "stale NFS handler" when trying to back up one of
> this drive.  And yes, the local drives are included in the domain
> statement.  Anyone have any ideas on how to get rid of this annoying
> message that gives this session a failure?  Thanks for the help.
>
> Sean M. Stecker
>



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