Yes, your probably hitting a firewall timeout.  If you look  you should see
the backups are roughly the same amount of time apart each day.

Robert Maiello
Pioneer Data Systems

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:10:44 -0400, Howard Martin <howard.martin AT EDS DOT COM>
wrote:

>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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