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Re: [Networker] Restarting a failed group?

2010-07-15 13:34:29
Subject: Re: [Networker] Restarting a failed group?
From: George Sinclair <George.Sinclair AT NOAA DOT GOV>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:30:21 -0400
Ken Ciolek wrote:
You are probably trying to restart outside the "Restart Window"

Look at the "Restart Window" under the Advanced tab in Group settings, by 
default it is set to 12 hours so if you restart after that 12 hour period it will run ALL 
the clients again. Adjust it to what you need.

Yep! It was 12:00 (the default), and I restarted it about 14 hours after it previously ran, so I missed it by two hours. Now, I know the catch. Thanks!!!

Three questions:
1. What if I had changed the 'Restart Window' value to, say, 15 before restarting it? Can you change the value before you restart it, or do you have to have already set that value before the group last ran?

2. Regardless, since the group was scheduled for an incremental, would this command have accomplished the same thing as what I intended with the 'Restart' to rerun just the failed client:

savegrp -l incr group -c client

3. If so, I guess the advantage of the 'Restart' (assuming you're within the window) is that not only does it only restart the failed clients, but it also only reruns the failed savesets for those clients whereas something like 'savegrp -l incr group -c client1 -c client2 ...' would rerun all the savesets for all the named clients. That right? Not as good, but better than nothing, I guess?

George



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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On 
Behalf Of George Sinclair
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 12:18 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Restarting a failed group?

In older releases of NW (e.g. 7.2.2) , it used to be that when you restarted a failed group, using nwadmin, it would only rerun the clients/savesets that failed, not the ones that succeeded. On the other hand, if you did a 'Start' then natch.

On newer releases (7.5.x), the 'Restart' option under nmc reruns everything. Is there a way to force it to just rerun the failed client?

So I have group that shows up under nmc with a status as a red circle with an 'X' in it, not a checkbox with a green check mark. That means something failed. Turns out, one client failed because the client software was turned off. After turning it back on and restarting the client, I now want to rerun the failed client. I can either 'Start' or 'Restart'. I pick 'Restart', and it restarts every client. Sheesh!

Do I have to instead login to the primary backup server and run:

savegrp -l incr group -c client

Yes, I can do that, but thought maybe nmc could do this, too?

Thanks.

George




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