Re: [Networker] Experiences with 7.3.2

Daniel Rich wrote:

We upgraded last week and so far haven't seen any new problems.  It does
seem to perform better than 7.3.1.

We're at 7.3.1 now. We are migrating from TSM to networker and deployedon 7.3.0 initially. We experienced many of the problems and bugs thathave already been detailed on this list.

Just for the record, I have a fairly large environment, so many of the
7.3.1 problems I was seeing may not affect other folks.  I'm pushing
about 50TB of data a month through a single server and doing most of the
backups via. NFS.  At one point my indices were over 200GB (since been
trimmed, but they're still in the 80GB range).

I'd be curious what problems you've seen as our environment is ofsimilar size. We're pushing 75TB/month through a single networkerserver (Solaris) and our indexes right now are at about 40GB. And westill have some substantial hosts to migrate. Our STK tape silos aremanaged by ACSLS and networker's handling of ACSLS has been the sourceof many woes (not disabling devices that have tapes stuck in them after10 tries. not enabling the silo on a server restart due to a problemwith one drive. losing tapes in inventory requiring periodic nsrjb -IIoperations. no ability to use jbedit or GUI configuration to make on thefly changes or dedicated storage node adds). The nsrd server isstandalone. All storage nodes are remote storage nodes attached tobackup devices. We replicate /nsr to a remote cold standby using Veritasvolume replicator.

We ran until very recently on the default nsrauth method. Weexperienced numerous timeouts, a sluggish GUI, etc. Switching tooldauth is making a substantial difference. I don't know if networkercan utilize SSL hardware acceleration but then I don't know if thatwould help the nsrauth methods or not(is it a code problem or resourceexhaustion). Regardless, the hardened nsrauth is not nearly asimportant to us as actually completing backups, preferably within theiralloted windows.

Stein-Are Smoge wrote:

Hi,Networker 7.3.2 have now been released. Have anyone installed it? And howdoes it seem to work compared with 7.3.1? It it safe for production in amedium enviroment?

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