Generally this occurs when client service doesn't respond back to server's 
probe process within 30 seconds. Try increasing the "inactivity timeout" value 
to 300 (default is 30) in savegrp properties.


kurtica wrote:
> Hello
> 
> we have a problem with backup of one client. It suddenly starts failing 
> altough there was no change neither on client nor backupserver. Log file says:
> 
> Cannot determine status of probe process.  The log file is empty.
> 
> When trying manual backup from server, probe is hanging and ends with same 
> error.
> Backup from client is running ok.
> 
> Connection from backupserver to client seems to be ok too. we can ping it, 
> telnet it, we get nsrports range, rpcinfo from server to client is working.
> 
> backupserver is SunOS with 7.4.4 networker, client is windows 2000.
> 
> Any ideas?


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