Re: [Networker] Problem with a Windows NT server backup

Stan,
You do not specify exact hardware, but if this a Compaq, try to run the
Gbit adapter with the Intel drivers instead of the Compaq ones.
HTH,
        Itzik

-----Original Message-----
From: Stan Horwitz [mailto:stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU] 
Sent: Monday, 14 October, 2002 15:29 
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Problem with a Windows NT server backup


Here's the story;

One of our last remaining Windows NT 4.0 servers refuses to back up to
our Networker 6.1.1 server (which runs Tru64 Unix). This NT client has
an old Networker client on it, version 5.2. We plan to upgrade the OS on
this server soon, but we recently swapped network cards on it and put a
gigabit card in place of the old 10/100MB card. Actually, both cards are
sitting in different PCI slots in this Gateway PC, but the old card has
been disabled.

Since deploying the new gigabit card, backups of one of this server's
four disk volumes fail ever night. Of course, this g:\ volume that fails
contains the most important data on the system and its the largest
volume; a SCSI raid array. The volume has roughly 11GB of data across
nearly 800,000 files. The other volumes are much smaller, but they back
up fine.

We have tried setting the gigabit back to 100/full and putting it back
on a port on our switch that operates at that rate. When the system is
connected to a gigabit switch, nor not, backups of this G:\ volume fail
after spending about three hours writing data to tape. The failure looks
network related to me because of the RPC error.

Here's the error message:

* smaug:G:\ 5 retries attempted
* smaug:G:\ save: RPC error, Unable to send
* smaug:G:\ save: Send Chunk to MMD failed, Connection reset by peer
* smaug:G:\ save: save failed on
G:\Programs\WebMail\USERS\jarmul AT temple DOT edu\USER.BAK

Does anyone know how we can get this backup to work with the gigabit
ethernet connection? It seems as if our only option to get a good backup
of all this server's volumes is to revert to the old network card.

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