I've seen this once before with firewall settings blocking ports between the 
server and the client.

Two questions:

1. Does a client initiated backup work correctly? (that doesn't necessarily 
mean that a server initiated backup will, but would be some more information 
for the group here)
2. Can you verify port connectivity between the Networker server and the client?

Do something like this from the backup server:

# telnet workingclient 7937
Trying 111.111.111.111...
Connected to workingclient.domain.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
^]
telnet> quit
Connection closed.

/
# telnet nonworkingclient 7937
Trying 222.222.222.222...

^C
#


You'll note that the workingclient responded immediately, and the 
nonworkingclient didn't respond immediately. -You'll have to control-C out of 
second portion. In the above case, this is due to exactly what I'm talking 
about.. firewall settings between the server and client. -Oddly enough, these 
ports are only blocked one way in my case. So client initiated backups still 
work, but not server.

Good luck,
 -Will


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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU]On
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Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 1:39 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Backup stuck "Waiting to run"


pattiac wrote:
> ... it is waiting for a tape
> from the "default" pool.  The log usually has a message to this effect.


Thanks for the reply.  In this case the backup never attempts to load a tape 
nor does the log show anything other than the start of the savegrp.

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