[Networker] SIDF error from SMDR on NetWare recovery

Server: NetWorker 7.1.3 build 421 on Red Hat AS 2.1
Clients: NetWorker 4.22 + rpcxdr.nlm patch on NetWare 6.5 sp2


Occassionally when doing a recover, our NetWare admins will get an error
during the recovery:


Requesting 2472 files, this may take a while...
SYS:TEST-GTW/SOFTWARE/1-NICI~1/APPEND.NLM
"SYS:TEST-GTW/SOFTWARE/1-NICI~1/APPEND.NLM" cannot create connecting
path:
   (SMDR-6.54.1) An internal error has occurred. The SIDF data type is
corrupted on overflow.
"SYS:TEST-GTW/SOFTWARE/1-NICI~1/APPEND.NLM" wasn't recoverd
SYS:TEST-GTW/SOFTWARE/1-NICI~1/ICMD.NLM
SYS:TEST-GTW/SOFTWARE/1-NICI~1/ISDOS.NLM
SYS:TEST-GTW/SOFTWARE/1-NICI~1/NICI.IPS
SYS:TEST-GTW/SOFTWARE/1-NICI~1/NICI_U0.EXE
SYS:TEST-GTW/SOFTWARE/1-NICI~1/NICIST.NLM
SYS:TEST-GTW/SOFTWARE/1-NICI~1/NICIST1.NLM
SYS:TEST-GTW/SOFTWARE/1-NICI~1/README.TXT
SYS:TEST-GTW/SOFTWARE/1-NICI~1/INSTALL/4/LICENSE1.TXT
"SYS:TEST-GTW/SOFTWARE/1-NICI~1/INSTALL/4/LICENSE1.TXT" cannot create
connecting path:
   (SMDR-6.54.1) An internal error has occurred. The SIDF data type is
corrupted on overflow.
"SYS:TEST-GTW/SOFTWARE/1-NICI~1/INSTALL/4/LICENSE1.TXT" wasn't
recoverd
SYS:TEST-GTW/SOFTWARE/1-NICI~1/INSTALL/4/NICI.ILS



and so on.  Now, generally they can retry recovering just the files that
failed and they will come back (sometimes they have to retry several
times), but that's obviously not optimal, especially for a large restore.

Anyone know what causes this, and more importantly what we can do to fix
it?

Tim
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