Hi,
I have the same problem with the cloning.
My server is a Sun Fire v120.
It has three ait-3 drives connected to it.
We installed orca to monitor how heavy system usage is and
the I/O is pretty intense right before it dies. Is that similar to your
situation?
Bill
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William M. Fennell
UNIX Administrator
Channing Laboratory
Will Parsons wrote:
> Hi Jonny,
> Sounds remarkably familiar..
>
> I've had a case open on this hang situation with Legato support for
> about 18 months now. I know another customer at Nokia is having the
> same issue.
> It seems to be specific to Solaris, and cloning on Storage nodes. The
> HBA's, drives, IP network, specific versions of Networker don't seem
> to make any difference to the symptom.
>
> We first saw the issue on 7.1.1. We're now on 7.2.1 because the
> Networker development team said that changes had been made to the tape
> selection code (the bit where the problem probably lays) in that
> release, but (as you've seen), no joy. The support analyst has asked
> that we start the investigation from the ground up again, so I'm
> loosing hope of the issue ever getting resolved. We do a large
> quantity of cloning, but currently the Master server (a VERY hard
> working E280) is having to do all the work, as the Storage nodes get
> in to this hang state.
>
> Feel free to e-mail direct if you want further info, or are willing to
> add your voice to our efforts to get Legato to fix this.
>
> Thanks
> Will
>
>
> Johnny Tran wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> This is my first post to this list, I have been lurking for quite a
>> while
>> now.
>>
>> We are running Networker Server 7.2.1.Build.311 on a Sun Fire 480R on
>> Solaris 8.
>>
>> One of the backup clients has 2 stand-alone DLT7000 tape drives,
>> running on
>> a UltraSPARC 2 on Solaris 2.6
>> It is running Networker Client 6.1.3.Build.428
>>
>> The backup runs successfully. The cloning is then run, however near
>> completion I see in the nwadmin GUI
>>
>> reading, idle
>> writing, idle
>>
>> And will it remain that way until I kill the nsrclone process.
>>
>> Has anyone encountered this before?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Johnny
>>
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