Hello,

Thanks for the reply.

I already have all this setup.  The only difference is that I don't have
index and bootstrap in the save sets field of the media pool.  But I
have verified (by looking at the save sets on the tapes in the pool)
that the only data that is written to the tapes in the pool is index and
bootstrap data.

The index backup runs then when it finishes backing up the indexes, the
bootstrap backup runs.  After the bootstrap backup is when it runs the
"owner notification" contents.  That's where it shows there are too many
open files.

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Subject: [Networker] Too Many Open Files

Try this:

1. Create a new group called Index.
2. Goto "Clients". and open the Properties for a client.
3. In the "Group" list, mark "Index" as well.
4. Repeat for all clients or whichever clients you require index backup
of.
5. Create a media pool called Index. If you already have this, well and
good.
6. Open properties for that Index pool. In Data Source, select the
groups for which you require index backup. goto "Selection Criteria"
tab, and enter the following:

index
bootstrap

7. Select the relevant tape drives and click OK.
8. Label media with the name Index in your tape library.
9. create a script with the following entry:

savegrp -O -l Full Index

10. u can now put the script in cron at your desired time.

I'm on windows and this works perfectly for me. try it and see.

opopanax.



Chester Martin wrote:
> In our networker environment we have about 330 clients, nw 7.5.1,
redhat
> 4.  For index backups these clients are a member of an group which I
run
> a savegrp -O command against for index backups.  In the owner
> notification field I have it pointed to a script, I also give the
script
> the argument of the actual server name being backed up. 
> 
> 
> 
> The problem is whenever an index backup runs I get hundreds of the
error
> below after the index backup completes and it runs the "owner
> notification" script.
> 
> 
> 
> "11/16/2009 02:52:32 PM  nsrexecd svc_tcp: svcfd_create: Too many open
> files"
> 
> 
> 
> Here's my script:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------
> 
> ScriptDirectory="/scripts/jobs"
> 
> #LogsDirectory="$ScriptDirectory/logs"
> 
> TempDirectory="$ScriptDirectory/temp"
> 
> 
> 
> CurrentEpochTime=$(date +%s)
> 
> JobOutputFile=($TempDirectory/$1$CurrentEpochTime)
> 
> cat>>$JobOutputFile
> 
> 
> 
> cat $JobOutputFile |grep -i "Indexes"
> 
> if [ $? = 0 ];then
> 
> #  rm -rf $JobOutputFile
> 
> exit 0
> 
> fi
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> 
> I've verified that it detects the word "Indexes" in the log (the word
> indexes is in the group name) because when I commented out the line to
> remove the log file in the "TempDirectory" it leaves the log files in
> the directory.  Also, by passing the server name to the script that
> verifies that it doesn't try to write/read to the same file during the
> same operation.
> 
> 
> 
> Here's some values that I've reset already
> 
> cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
> 
> 200000
> 
> 
> 
> ulimit -n
> 
> 65535
> 
> 
> 
> Added to /etc/security/limits.conf
> 
> * hard nofile 65535
> 
> * soft nofile 65535
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> If I exit out of the script before it does any processing I don't get
an
> error, so does networker open more files than the logs I'm
creating....
> :?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> 
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