Stan,

On 24/07/2010, at 20:31 , STANLEY R. HORWITZ wrote:
> On Jul 24, 2010, at 2:35 AM, Preston de Guise wrote:
>> On 24/07/2010, at 12:06 , wallace88 wrote:
>> 
>>> My personal peeve is hearing people say that deleting /nsr/tmp is the 
>>> solution when backups or jukebox is hung...  that NetWorker will work ok if 
>>> you just clear tmp regularly.  If you think about it, how do you know that 
>>> deleting tmp solve the issue, and not restarting the NetWorker application? 
>>> Isn't this similar to the windows solution of rebooting Windows will fix 
>>> everything?
>> 
>> It's easy to come to this conclusion in situations where multiple restarts 
>> of the NetWorker services do nothing, yet a stop, clear-out of /nsr/tmp and 
>> a restart of NetWorker does achieve the intended goal.
>> 
>> While it's certainly true that in some instances a simple restart might be 
>> sufficient to clear issues, it's also the case that there are various state 
>> files in /nsr/tmp which you will sometimes find yourself needing to erase in 
>> order to restore functionality after particularly unpleasant hardware 
>> issues. 
> 
> Is there any reason not to clear out /nsr/tmp as part of a normal NetWorker 
> server restart process? I don't think so. I have noticed over time that 
> /nsr/tmp gets very large. As a result, I just delete it each time I restart 
> NetWorker, which for me is once every week or two.

The only reason to avoid doing it as part of the normal restart process is if 
you want to be able to restart a group that you'd previously stopped or aborted 
after the server restart; deleting /nsr/tmp will remove any option for doing a 
group "Restart", and instead you'd have to start the group from scratch again.

Cheers,

Preston.

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Preston de Guise

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