The save set _is_ large (70GB, many files), but:

I don't think it is a problem of traversing the file system as
- the error occurs only from time to time (say, every two weeks)
- the save process on the client stops responding very early (after a few
  ten seconds) and then does not use any cpu power any more
- the error also occurs when performing a full backup (whereas I must
  admit, that this did not happen spontaneously up to now, only when a
  hanging save process already existed on the client)
- I already tried with an inactivity timeout of 12 hours, same results

Details on the backup client follow, all I can say now, is, that the
machine isn't slow; OS is Win2000; Networker version is 6.1.1 (server and
client)

Ingo


On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:23:46 -0500, Stan Horwitz <stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote:

>On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Ingo Roschmann wrote:
>>
>> I have checked the file indexes, no errors
>> I have tried a manual full backup of the save set and when it stopped
>> responding I tried it another time: the verbous output of those two saves
>> ends at exactly the same position, whereas an incremental backup does
_not_
>> stop at that particular file, but later it also stops responding; so I
>> don't think there are "evil files" or something
>
>What type of computer and operating system is this backup client? Is the
>save set very large in terms of the number of files in it? Does the save
>set have a long directory tree? Perhaps you need to increase your
>inactivity timeout setting to allow more time for that save sets file
>system to be traversed by the NetWorker client, esp. if the computer
>that houses this save set is slow.
>
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