Re: [Networker] Lost connection problem

I don't think so, where do I change that?  Our browse and retention
policies are 1 month and 1 year

Compression is used on the drives and on some clients, but not on the
example clients...

Tim

On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 11:10, Maarten Boot (CWEU-USERS/CWNL) wrote:

> 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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Tim Verbois
EDS-Telindus
Unix Team
02/553.71.73

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