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Re: [Networker] Deleting "Ghost" Clients

2003-01-14 14:13:43
Subject: Re: [Networker] Deleting "Ghost" Clients
From: Davina Treiber <treiber AT HOTPOP DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:14:47 -0500
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:03:12 +1000, Simon Ward(iD)
<CIOSA1 AT BRISBANE.QLD.GOV DOT AU> wrote:

>    I have been working on a dual network server/client setup and have
created a number of virtual clients based on the actual host name and on
aliases. Had some interesting results. Backups working, but index cycles
going in a variety of places based on whether I use the production network
or private backup network, but that is a side issue that I would like
cleared up at some time, but for now I just want to remove all the client
entries, including the aliases from the index. I found another posting that
refers to this issue and used the functional perl script to remove all the
ssid's associated with the client and it's aliases. This ran with no errors
and I deleted the index directories after the script ran.

I don't know what you are trying to achieve by this. Normally you would only
want to backup through a single interface, particularly if you have a
dedicated backup network. Backing up the same client under different aliases
has a down side, and this is that each name will require a separate licence,
so costs you more. Usually people define the client as the name it uses on
the backup network, then alias the other names to that. If you do want to do
this and write the indices to a common location you can use "save -c
clientname" in the backup command field, that will do the trick.

>    What I am left with is an index that when viewed using nwadmin from a
Win2k system shows no trace of the client or it's aliases and looks as I
would have expected after the cleanup, but when viewed with the X based
i/face they still show up as entries, but have no cycles in them - they are
null entries and are names only.
>
>What else must I do to get rid of them or is it OK the to continue? I am
running 6.1.2 on a unix server with 6.1.2 nwadmin on Win2K.
I don't think you can. They don't do any harm, they are just an annoyance. I
expect that these names are stored in the media DB, and probably can't be
removed by any tools in the NetWorker distribution.

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