Howie Jock wrote:
> Usually all you need to do is delete ALL client definitions of your test 
> server 'abc' to delete all its indicies and remove it from the backup server 
> so you can get good backups of your new production server (despite whatever 
> attributes it has in common with the test server).  All you may need to do is 
> refresh your nwadmin GUI to be sure you have deleted ALL client instances of 
> 'abc' 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Jock Howie
> 
> Hi Jock,
> 
> I have tried every thing that u stated, I really want this client to be 
> backed and looks like we cant even restore when this abc doesnt have any 
> backups!
> 
> Cheers
> Bangrn
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> Behalf Of bangrn
> Sent: Wednesday, 16 January 2008 4:34 p.m.
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: [Networker] Client not being backedup
> 
> 
> Hi Guys,
> 
> PLEASE HELP ME IN THIS PLEASE!
> 
> 
> I am having a problem backing up a client to Networker. A client profile was 
> created called abc with an IP address of 10.100.5.6 for testing purposes. 
> Once testing was completed I removed the client profile and deleted the 
> associated savesets but I didnt remove the client file indexes.
> 
> 
> When I went to create the client profile for the live server abc (with same 
> IP 10.100.5.6) a test backup of C:\temp succeeded however the normal nightly 
> backup always failed with an error message of:
> 
> 2 retries attempted
> 
> No full backups of this save set were found in the media database; performing 
> a full backup
> 
> save: File index error: permission denied, `SYSTEM' on `abc' must have remote 
> access privilege to client scorvmtestian.
> 
> save: Cannot open save session with networker server
> 
> When a backup was run manually during the day of ASR or SYSTEM DB it would 
> always fail.
> 
> After this I removed all savesets of abc and scorvmtestian. Note a mminfo for 
> scorvmtestian would bring up savesets for abc. Then I removed the client 
> profile for abc and created a new client profile for scorvmtestian. I then 
> removed the client file indexes for scorvmtestian. I then created a new 
> client profile called abc and ran a full backup. For the first time I 
> succeeded in getting a full backup of abc. I then removed the scorvmtestian 
> alias from the abc client profile and removed scorvmtestian from DNS. I then 
> ran another full backup which succeeded with no error messages.
> 
> Last nights backup of abc failed with this error message:
> 
> 2 retries attempted
> 
> save: File index error: `scorvmtestian' is not a registered client
> 
> save: Cannot open save session with networker server
> 
> Aghhhhh! I thought I had got rid of all trace of scorvmtestian!!!!!
> 
> 
> I have implemented this:
> 
> 
> Here is my plan (assuming its OK with the client to blow away yesterdays 
> full backups):
> 
> 
> 
> Delete all savesets for abc
> Verify no savesets are left for abc
> Remove the client file indexes for abc
> Verify the abc directory has been removed under /nsr/index 
> Delete the abc client profile 
> 
> 
> Change hosts file to remove abc and add scorvmtestian 
> Add a client profile for scorvmtestian 
> Check no savesets exist for scorvmtestian (unlikely) 
> Remove the client file indexes for scorvmtestian 
> verify the scorvmtest directory has been removed under /nsr/index 
> Delete the client profile for scorvmtestian 
> 
> 
> Change the /etc/hosts to remove scorvmtestian and add abc 
> create a new client profile for sqbhosms02 
> Run a test backup 
> 
> NO CHANGE
> 
> 01/16/08 12:11:00 savegrp: job (645308) host: abc
> savepoint: D:\ had ERROR indication(s) at completion.
> * abc:D:\ 1 retry attempted
> * abc:D:\ save: File index error: `scorvmtestian' is not a registered client
> * abc:D:\ save: Cannot open save session with seinfeld
> 01/16/08 12:11:00 savegrp: abc:D:\ failed.
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