Re: [Networker] networker won't shutdown
2005-10-31 10:30:00
Hey Dave/Davina,
How are your groups differentiated? The way I used to do it is by
retention/time/day of full. 0000_Sun_B30DaysR30Days would be all the
clients that run a full on Sunday at 12am and have a 30 day browse and
retention. All of these clients would have a schedule that skips the
first Sunday of the month. Then I would have a corresponding group
called 0000_Sun_B30DaysR1Year. That group contains client entries that
skip every day except a full on the 1st Sunday of the month and have a 1
year retention. Can you give me an idea of how you configure your
groups?
BTW... The pool selection is keyed off of the group.
Thanks!
Joel
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From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU]
On Behalf Of Dave Mussulman
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 6:03 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] networker won't shutdown
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 05:33:44PM -0400, Joel Fisher wrote:
> It actually is a pain to manage, but I've just gotten feed up with one
> client that hangs an entire group and then it doesn't run the next
> night.
>
> Since I have an entry for the server in each group(for index retention
> length purposes) it does actually put quite a load on the server. I'm
> trying to decide what I'm going to do about that. It runs 600+
> bootstraps a night which cause the server to not respond at times.
I'm
> considering moving the indexes to another pool so that I don't have to
> worry about the retention time causing my media to not recycle.
>
> By your response, I take it you use large groups. Do you not have
> problems with hanging clients? How do you handle your indexes?
I've got about four groups with about 70 clients per group. I can't
imagine breaking them into individual groups. Plus, as you noted, you'd
need to put a server instance in each group so the indexes get backed up
with the proper retention times, and then you'd get a ton of bootstrap
messages. (I guess alternative you could turn off indexes for each
group and do an index backup once a day, but that might not even get
around the index retention issues.)
I get some occasional hung clients (or media contention that can't load
the tape it needs to write to because other pools are using all of the
drives.) I watch for it by having a script check to see if any groups
are still running at 10pm and, if so, page me. (So I can see what's
still running and check it before I go to bed.) I also watch out for
the "savegroup is already running" error savegroup completion and
manually start a group if I catch it in time.
And then I fix whatever client is causing the savegroup to hang. In my
environment, the machine is usually hosed some other way and needs a
reboot or rebuild. (The hanging backups isn't the problem, it's a side
effect of another problem.) But this happens rarely enough in my
environment that it's not worth creating 400+ groups. *shudder*
Dave
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