have you ever tried expire = 0 for the full backups
as a side question: are you using compression on the client or on the drive
Maarten
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 10:41, Tim Verbois wrote:
> Hello,
>
> we have a serious problem with our legato 5.5 version (yes it is old,
> but an update is out of the question for the management). We backup 6
> terrabyte once every 14 days and that goes wrong. Some data about the
> environment:
>
> Our robot is a Scalar 1000 with 6 devices: 3590 tape drives (10 GB
> native, but much more compressed). We use about 200 tapes every full
> backup.
> We have about 160 clients (windows and unix) and licenses for 180
> approximately.
>
> Every day, we make an incremental backup and that goes fine, no problem
> with that, but when we make a full backup it goes wrong big time. Last
> weekend 70% of all servers failed with a "lost connection" error. This
> is the case for the last 2 months. There is no support on the software
> anymore (to old).
>
> What have we done so far:
>
> - We had ierrors on the fiber channel that was connected to our backup
> lan switch. The card has been replaced, the card has been moved to
> another slot (and another bus). But the problem remains.
>
> - We played with the settings in legato, but nothing works. I changed
> the max sessions on the drives to 30 (instead of 8), but nothing.
>
>
> This is an example of a failed backup:
>
> NetWorker Savegroup: (alert) Ferraris.WE completed, 1 client(s)
> (li01741-bu.lin.vlaanderen.be Failed)
> Start time: Mon 02 Aug 2004 08:09:59 AM MET DST
> End time: Tue 03 Aug 2004 09:19:45 AM MET DST
>
> --- Unsuccessful Save Sets ---
>
> * li01741-bu.lin.vlaanderen.be:/export reading log file failed
> * li01741-bu.lin.vlaanderen.be:/export2 1 retry attempted
> * li01741-bu.lin.vlaanderen.be:/export2 save: lost connection to server,
> exiting
> * li01741-bu.lin.vlaanderen.be:/export3 1 retry attempted
> * li01741-bu.lin.vlaanderen.be:/export3 save: lost connection to server,
> exiting
>
> --- Successful Save Sets ---
>
> li01741-bu.lin.vlaanderen.be: / level=full, 308 MB 00:06:20
> 25499 files
> li01741-bu.lin.vlaanderen.be: /var level=full, 1265 MB 00:07:23
> 4722 files
> li01741-bu.lin.vlaanderen.be: /opt level=full, 108 MB 00:00:45
> 3671 files
> li01741-bu.lin.vlaanderen.be: /export/infx_backup level=full, 1159 MB
> 00:11:05 13 files
> buux1: /nsr/index/li01741-bu.lin.vlaanderen.be level=full, 1015 MB
> 00:08:39 6 files
>
> and another one:
>
> NetWorker Savegroup: (alert) Mailcluster.WE completed, 1 client(s)
> (s100012-bu.vlaanderen.be Failed)
> Start time: Mon 02 Aug 2004 08:12:31 AM MET DST
> End time: Mon 02 Aug 2004 03:50:04 PM MET DST
>
> --- Unsuccessful Save Sets ---
>
> * s100012-bu.vlaanderen.be:/global/apps 1 retry attempted
> * s100012-bu.vlaanderen.be:/global/apps save: Warning -
> `/global/apps/dir52/slapd-mvgstore/db/__db.004' changed during save
> * s100012-bu.vlaanderen.be:/global/apps lost connection to server,
> exiting
> * s100012-bu.vlaanderen.be:/global/apps/part1 1 retry attempted
> * s100012-bu.vlaanderen.be:/global/apps/part1 lost connection to server,
> exiting
> * s100012-bu.vlaanderen.be:/global/apps/part2 1 retry attempted
> * s100012-bu.vlaanderen.be:/global/apps/part2 lost connection to server,
> exiting
> * s100012-bu.vlaanderen.be:/global/apps/part3 1 retry attempted
> * s100012-bu.vlaanderen.be:/global/apps/part3 lost connection to server,
> exiting
> * s100012-bu.vlaanderen.be:/global/apps/part4 1 retry attempted
> * s100012-bu.vlaanderen.be:/global/apps/part4 lost connection to server,
> exiting
>
> --- Successful Save Sets ---
>
> s100012-bu.vlaanderen.be: / level=full, 2301 MB 00:13:43
> 87313 files
> s100012-bu.vlaanderen.be: /var level=full, 3574 MB 00:17:45
> 25115 files
> * s100012-bu.vlaanderen.be:/em Warning: unsynchronized client clock
> detected
> s100012-bu.vlaanderen.be: /em level=full, 62 MB 00:00:48
> 1160 files
> s100012-bu.vlaanderen.be: /global/.devices/node@1 level=full, 3741 KB
> 00:01:11 13417 files
> s100012-bu.vlaanderen.be: /global/apps/part5 level=full, 3 KB
> 00:02:16 5 files
> s100012-bu.vlaanderen.be: /global/apps/part6 level=full, 3 KB
> 00:01:45 5 files
> buux1: /nsr/index/s100012-bu.vlaanderen.be level=full, 4389 MB
> 01:01:52 6 files
>
> Buux1 is our backup server.
>
> Server li01741 (file server) was started manualy yesterday morning after
> a failed backup in the weekend. He backupped 91 chunks of 2000 MB. And
> than he stopped...
>
> Can anyone give me a hint?
>
> Thanx,
>
> Tim
>
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