Networker

Re: [Networker] backup error with schedule "skip"

2009-02-26 15:46:58
Subject: Re: [Networker] backup error with schedule "skip"
From: "Goslin, Paul" <pgoslin AT CINCOM DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:44:59 -0500
Support recently told me that once your server is at 7.4.x or above, all
your clients must be at least 7.2 or greater... Or they could not help
me with a group that contained any clients that were 7.1 or less. 
But I doubt this would cause scheduling issues, but it may... 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion 
> [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Teresa Biehler
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 11:07 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: [Networker] backup error with schedule "skip"
> 
> To do daily, weekly and monthly backups, we have 3 client 
> definitions for each client.  On any one night, two of these 
> are running a "skip"
> schedule and the third is actually doing the backups.  
> 
>  
> 
> Up until v7.2.2 this worked great.  Now we're at v7.4.2 and 
> I'm seeing a bunch of clients giving this error:
> 
>  
> 
> savegrp: NWclient:All save was never started
> 
>   NWclient: All                          level=skip,      0 
> KB 00:00:00
> 0 files
> 
> savegrp: NWclient:index index was never started
> 
>   NWclient: index:NWclient                    level=skip,      0 KB
> 00:00:00      0 files
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> It looks as though NW is not understanding/interpreting the 
> schedule correctly.  This is not happening on all our 
> clients, but it is happening on about 100 (of about 400) of 
> them.  Has anyone ever seen this?  Do you have any 
> suggestions on how to troubleshoot this?
> 
>  
> 
> The server is running Solaris 10 and the clients impacted are 
> a variety of operating systems.  The clients are running NW 
> v7.1.x or v7.2.x (this is true for successful and 
> unsuccessful clients).
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Teresa
> 
> 
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