Solaris 8/ Networker 7.0

We are certainly having a similar problem here only we are running in a Solaris
environment. I had a Legato case open before Christmas but they kept blaming the
tape drive hardware. At the time, it had only occured once on that drive but
since has occured many times and at least once on all our drives. I admit, our
present backup server is under-powered for what it is doing but we are upgrading
it very shortly. I still can't believe that is it because it was working fine
until I upgraded from Networker 6.1.3 to 7.0.

When I find it in this "hung/SuperSlow" state, I just kill the nsrclone process
and play catchup later by running the nsrclone command manually. It annoys me to
no end when it happens on a weekend!

We did just get a bunch of new tapes of which were delivered to us when it was
-40C outside. A couple in the batch have already had issues and been marked full
far too early. I could see how this might be related to the cloning problem as
it's happened more frequently since we started using tapes from this new batch.

Paula

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On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 14:53:59 -0500, Robert Maiello
<robert.maiello AT THOMSON DOT COM> wrote:
>
>I've found with version 7.1.1 on Unix the cloning behavoir has changed.
>If we encounter an error on the tape being written to nsrclone hangs/never
>finishes.  In the morning I see the clone is running, the source tape is
>reading but nothing is being written to.  A look at the drive being read
>from reveals its not really being read.
>
>I know this is quite the problem you have but something definitely changed
>in this version.  In 6.x the clone would fail on tape write errors and
>the drives would be free.
>
>Has anyone notice this or Brian's problem when cloning in version 7.x??
>
>
>I also have a case open with Legato.
>
>Robert Maiello
>Thomson Healthcare
>
>
>On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 08:10:21 -0500, Spindler, Brian
><brian.spindler AT RUESCH DOT COM> wrote:
>
>>Networker 7.1, Windows 2000
>>
>>OK! I need some real help here with Cloning.  My Clone Sets NEVER
>>complete.  Every morning when I come in the cloning sessions are still
>>running and when I look at the status they are "writing, idle" and
>>"reading, done".  When I look at the perfmon counters for "Write
>>kilobyte / sec" there is no activity whatsoever.  How can I make sure
>>that my clones continue to run as scheduled?  AND if they are hung how
>>can I nudge them along?  Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>>
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Brian

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