On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 02:06:20PM -0500, Fowler, Carter wrote:
> You can use a utility from www.sysinternals.com called process explorer.  
> Search for nsrmmd.exe and there will be a number of them, find the one 
> referencing the hung device in question and kill it.  The process will 
> restart clean.
>
> There's more information in the archives.

I'm running Networker under Solaris; I can see the nsrmmd processes
under 'ps -Af' but I don't know which is associated with the drive I
want to kill.  Is there a way to track the -n <number> back to a drive?

Dave


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mussulma AT CS.UIUC DOT EDU
> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 1:26 PM
> To: mussulma AT CS.UIUC DOT EDU; NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Hung "saving to pool" process
>
> Sometimes, when a client/backup appears to be hung and it's stopping the
> group from completing, when I manually stop the group, the individual
> client backup doesn't finish.  I still see a
>
> grads:C:\ saving to pool 'Daily' (Daily.018) 102 MB
>
> in the Session window of the nwadmin program, and the drive containing
> Daily.018 is still stuck in the writing stage -- although nothing
> appears to be happening.  How do I get rid of this safely?  (In the past
> I've shutdown the server and restarted, but that seems extreme.)
>
> I'm guessing I need to kill a specific nsrmmd process, but how can I
> track which one is linked to the client/drive I need to release?  Is
> there another way to do this?  Thanks,
>
> Dave
>
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