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[Veritas-bu] Linux restore problems ... RESOLVED!

2005-09-08 10:49:23
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Linux restore problems ... RESOLVED!
From: wtsmith AT maine DOT edu (Wayne T Smith)
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 10:49:23 -0400
Sorry for the delay ... we just got to a maintenance window where we 
could install the fix ... and it did NOT resolve our problem.  I will 
report any progress we make, as one of our lead networking people is 
still working on the problem.

cheers, wayne

Wayne T Smith wrote, in part,  on 8/30/2005 5:30 PM:

> A few weeks ago I reported inability to restore a file (times out),
> except to the backup server itself.
>
> After a few weeks and getting several people involved, we've discovered
> the cause: our router has a sensitivity to a certain sequence of
> characters of data ... and this file had that sequence!    There is a
> fix available to the router and it should be applied next week.
>
> Thanks to all who offered suggestions!
>
> cheers, wayne
>
> Wayne T Smith wrote, in part,  on 8/2/2005 4:14 PM:
>
>> My Solaris NetBackup server is v5.1MP3 and I have a problem with some 
>> Linux restores.  On a few machines a full restore results in some 
>> (many!) files not being restored.  Some files are restored; others 
>> aren't.  If I pick one of the "problem" files and restore just it, I 
>> get a status code 5, with a "Socket write failed" error, 9-11 minutes 
>> into the restore.  An example Admin Console log is listed below. 
>> Failures are always 9-11 minutes into the restore, with the below 
>> example almost exactly 10 minutes.
>>
>> A restore to another Linux machine (version & MP do not seem to 
>> matter) results in the same error.  However, a restore to my backup 
>> server succeeds!   For what it is worth, the data was backed up with 
>> NetBackup v4.5MP5.
>>
>> I could use suggestions for how to debug this problem (socket write 
>> failed is not very informative) and any suggestions on settings to 
>> tweak, should that be the problem.
>>
>> (My master/media server has the following timeouts reported: Client 
>> connect timeout: 900 seconds, Client read timeout: 1800 seconds, 
>> Media server connect timeout: 60 seconds, Use OS dependent timeouts 
>> is checked.  On the client, the Client read timeout is 300 seconds).
>>
>> Thanks and cheers, wayne
>>
>>
>> ash:~$ less 
>> /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/user_ops/wsmith/logs/jbpUJAmua4gi.log
>> Restore started 08/02/2005 14:45:49
>>
>> 14:45:57 (248339.xxx) Restore job id 248339 will require 1 image.
>> 14:45:57 (248339.xxx) Media id NB0361 is needed for the restore.
>> 14:45:57 (248339.xxx) Media id NB0263 is needed for the restore.
>> 14:45:57 (248339.xxx) Media id NB0145 is needed for the restore.
>>
>> 14:46:02 (248339.001) Restoring from image created Sat 30 Jul 2005 
>> 12:19:57 AM EDT
>> 14:46:10 (248339.001) INF - Waiting for mount of media id NB0263 on 
>> server ash for reading.
>> 14:53:56 (248339.001) INF - Waiting for positioning of media id 
>> NB0263 on server ash for reading.
>> 14:54:31 (248339.001) INF - Beginning restore from server ash to 
>> client cedar.unet.maine.edu.
>> 15:04:37 (248339.001) The following files/folders were not restored:
>> 15:04:38 (248339.001) UTF - 
>> /usr/local/blackboard/content/vi/bb_bb60/courses/1/00230_K_042/groups/_9839_1/_276333_1/Presenta
>>  
>>
>> tion.ppt
>> 15:04:39 (248339.001) Status of restore from image created Sat 30 Jul 
>> 2005 12:19:57 AM EDT = socket write failed
>>
>> 15:04:40 (248339.xxx) INF - Status = the restore failed to recover 
>> the requested files.
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