Fields, David wrote:
> Recently, I've started having the following problems with backups of any
> server that uses SAVEPNPC.  What is happening is:
> 
>  
> 
>     1.  PRE and PST commands are *sometimes* being ran multiple times per
> client, while the backup is being performed.  It appears as if this may be
> happening due to timeout issues, but there's nothing in the logs to confirm
> this.
> 
>     2.  Sometimes, the PST command is being run just minutes after the PRE
> command has run, while the backup is still going on.
> 
>  
> 
> In both cases, this results in corrupted backups since most of the time the
> PRE and PST commands are used to run script that shut down various types of
> databases.
> 
>  
> 
> I've checked the usual culprits, and none of them have made things any
> better:
> 
>  
> 
>             Removed any .tmp files from the nsr/tmp folder
> 
>             Restarted both the networker server and the client software.
> 
>             Checked the pre and pst commands for errors
> 
>             Checked the .res files for errors
> 
>             Verified that the PRE command exits with errorcode 0
> 
>             
> 

Post an excerpt from the savepnpc.log on the client then I'll see if I
can work out what is going wrong.

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