John,

If no directive is kicking that skips data in this directory then my first
guess would be Networker messing up?

A similar thing happen to many of us with Compaq Windows Clients;  namely
ones running a Compaq gigabit card.  On save it would detect no drives to
backup.  If one listed the drives out as savesets it worked.  This was
traced to the Compaq (uh HP) gigabit driver interfering with Networker's
probing/detecting of drives.  An upgrade to the driver or a registry change
for the driver solved the problem.

Of course for your case, it sees the drive, but is missing a directory or
data in it.. scary.

Please let us know the outcome.

Robert Maiello
Thomson Medical Economics


On Fri, 9 May 2003 08:13:49 -0400, Jon Minson <john.minson AT NAVY DOT MIL> 
wrote:

>It would would be a nice feature for Networker to give some
>warning/error/explanation when it decides to ignore W2K directories
>containing billions of bytes of data .
>Yes thats whats happening here . Its happened on 2 different W2K servers of
>dissimilar configurations. The setup is
>1) W2K server running Networker 6.1.2 client (or greater)
>2)Solaris 2.6 running Networker 6.1.2 or 6.1.3 server
>Heres the ugliness
>
>In one case the drive on the W2K box was 'E:\" in another case "F:\".
>In the client setup I said 'ALL' for the savesets. After the backup runs you
>see that a particular directory(lets say XYZ) containing in one case 70 GB
>data does not get backed up. Review of both server and client logs shows NO
>ERRORS/NO WARNINGS . This is not good.Further inspection of the backup
>results shows that some of the data on "F:\" was dumped , only XYZ was
>ignored.
>I then go on to discover that by listing the directories explicitly (F:\A
>F:\XYZ F:\FUBAR) every thing gets dumped . This is not a good solution for
>obvious reasons .
>
>I have been struggling with this issue since last October. Legato 'technical'
>support must not think its much of an issue since I'm the only one reporting
>it.(We go through a 3rd party for support).
>
>Is it a Networker BUG? W2K BUG? Networker Config Issue? W2K Security Issue?
>W2K Config Issue ? I don't care . I have supplied every log available form
>both server and client,every configuration detail from both server and
>client. Silence . All manner of back up tests run . Silence
>
>If you have a configuration similar to ours you might want to double check
>your back up results.
>
>Heres some real data.
>
># savegrp -n -c xxxx -G TEST
>  xxxx:C:\ 8004 records 1585 KB header 872 MB data
>  xxxx:C:\ 874 MB estimated
>  xxxx:E:\ 96 records 18 KB header 11 MB data
>  xxxx:E:\ 11 MB estimated
>  xxxx:F:\ 240 records 51 KB header 424 MB data
>  xxxx:F:\ 424 MB estimated
>  xxxx:SYSTEM STATE:\ 4 records 1 KB header 0 KB data
>  xxxx:SYSTEM STATE:\ 1 KB estimated
>  xxxx:SYSTEM DB:\ 4 records 1 KB header 0 KB data
>  xxxx:SYSTEM DB:\ 1 KB estimated
>  xxxx:SYSTEM FILES:\ 2 records 1 KB header 0 KB data
>  xxxx:SYSTEM FILES:\ 1 KB estimated
>  SSSSS:index:8cfbc825-00000004-3d09d4b4-3d09d4b3-04670000-ac112846 352
>records 72 KB header 26 MB data
>  SSSSS:index:8cfbc825-00000004-3d09d4b4-3d09d4b3-04670000-ac112846 26 MB
>estimated
>
>Notice the estimate for F:\
>
>Now by listing F:\XYZ we see
>
># savegrp -n -c xxxx -G TEST
>  xxxx:F:\XYZ 17689 records 4094 KB header 71 GB data
>  xxxx:F:\XYZ 71 GB estimated
>  SSSSS:index:8cfbc825-00000004-3d09d4b4-3d09d4b3-04670000-ac112846 352
>records 72 KB header 26 MB data
>  SSSSS:index:8cfbc825-00000004-3d09d4b4-3d09d4b3-04670000-ac112846 26 MB
>estimated
>#
>
>Slight difference between 424 MB and 71 GB
>
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