[Networker] Summary: NT Backups barely start then stop

Hi All,

Since these were busy Lotus Notes boxes, OFM was literally killing the box.
At times, the temporary space that OFM was using would fill the available
space.  At worst, OFM would also blue screen the box.  www.stbernard.com has a
good white paper on how OFM _really_ works - I was certainly surprised.

Solution: We're currently evaling the Lotus Notes module and that seems to be
working quite well.  Note that the module only backs up Notes relevant data. It
does not backup the OS.  So, you'll need two clients definitions - one that
handles the Notes data and the other to backup the OS and skip any notes data.

Thanks to:

- "O'Brien, Pat" <pobrien AT mitidata DOT com> for some debugging hints


Regards,
        /\/elson


On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, David E. Nelson wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> We've just migrated our NT side of the house to Legato NW using a Unix backup
> server.  On a couple of our servers we've got C:\ and D:\ drives.  The C:\,
> SYSTEM DB, SYSTEM STATE, SYSTEM FILE save sets always succeed.  However,
> consistently, D:\ on one system gets 26MB out of ~30GB and then suddenly 
> stops.
> The other system starts D:\ but no data is xfered and then suddenly stops.
> Other similar servers do not experience this problem.
>
> Adjusting the client definition for one of the affected clients so that only
> 'D:\' is backed up and issuing a 'savegrp' commmand w/ verbose shows nothing
> useful.
>
> On the server side, even though the backup has been killed, the save session
> remains in the GUI window.  Also, the nsrindexd processes never terminates and
> must be manually killed.
>
> Client Details:
>
> NW: 6.1.1
> OS: Win2k w/ SP2 (?)
> Primary Apps: Lotus Notes
> OFM (8.0?) installed
>
>
> Server Details:
>
> NW: 6.1.1
> OS: Solaris 8
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>         /\/elson
>
>
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