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Re: [Networker] RPC Timeouts on Full backup.

2007-09-11 09:23:22
Subject: Re: [Networker] RPC Timeouts on Full backup.
From: "Browning, David" <DBrown AT LSUHSC DOT EDU>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:19:11 -0500
That can happen is the timeout value is too low - the field is actually
called timeout value.   You can set it to the maximum 999, and see if
that helps.   Documentation says that if you set it to ZERO (0), that
will cause the group to not use a timeout value, but in previous
versions I've found it doesn't always work. 

By the way, did you check the index of the clients?  Sometimes the
backup continues to run, and will store the entry on tape, even though
the group thinks that the backup failed.  We've had this happen on very
large file systems (1,000,000+ files).  


David M. Browning Jr.
LSUHSC Enterprise Network Operations/Help Desk


-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Matt Temple
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 4:41 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] RPC Timeouts on Full backup.

All,

    All of our full backups work perfectly except with 2 of our
clients.   Both give error messages that look like this:

> * easter:/easter 2 retries attempted
> * easter:/easter save: RPC error: RPC send operation failed.  A
network connection could not be established with the host.
> * easter:/easter lost connection to server, exiting
>
And both partitions are the only partitions having single files larger
than 40G.   Could size be the issue here.   Right now I'm running an
indexed
archive on the file system in question on one of the computers.

Just to note, the other filesystems on these machines back up
successfully.
And incremental/5/7 backups go off without a hitch.

Server is running FC and Networker 7.2.1.

Thanks in advance!

                                                    Matt

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