Virginia Hysock wrote:

>      We seem to see the problem more with NT server backups, especially
> when it hits a very large file to back up.

This is consistent with my experience!  I can almost consistently cause the
error by backing up a fileset with a large 40+Meg file.  I've also tried
detunning the network IO parameters (i.e. window size, buffer size, etc.) to
the smallest (i.e. slowest) settings possible to no avail.

> Running the backups directly to a disk storage pool, rather than tape, has
> helped somewhat, but we are still  experiencing failures every night.

My backups all go to a disk pool first, so I can't confirm what happens when
going directly to tape.

It's good to know that I'm not the only one having this problem.  Now if I can
only get the vendors & support people (i.e. IBM, CISCO & Our Internal network
group) to quit pointing fingers at each other, we might get this solved!

Garon

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Garon C. Yoakum
Garon C. Yoakum
President, Microright Corporation
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