On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 09:08:48 -0400, Alexandre =?iso-8859-1?Q?
D=E9ry=2Fdgt=2Fsct?= <Alexandre.Dery AT SCT.GOUV.QC DOT CA> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I recently added a few clients in a new group to my Networker server
>(W2K3, NW 7.1) and I began to notice a strange behavior with 2 of my
>groups (the new one, and an old one).
>
>Some save sets are backed up twice, even 3 times ! So a 15Gb backup takes
>some ~30Gb instead !!!
>
>The one thing that those two groups have in common is that they both
>backup through a firewall (not the same one, but both firewalls are the
>same [Checkpoint FW-1 NG R55]).
>
>The only thing I'm seeing in the firewall logs are dropped packets
because
>they are "out-of-state" (ACK sent before SYN, and such...)...
>
>Has someone on the list seen a behaviour like that ?
>
>Any help is greatly appreciated...
>
>Thanks !

I've seen failures of this sort with FW-1 it needed a change to the
firewall settings to stop it, if it is the same the savesets will have
been aborted and I assume you have 3 retries in your groups as standard.

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