Networker

Re: [Networker] Indexes disappearing ..

2011-09-27 15:56:27
Subject: Re: [Networker] Indexes disappearing ..
From: jee <jee AT ERESMAS DOT NET>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:54:51 +0100
Something must have changed. Maybe accidentally (a recent NW server crash, a 
change on the DNS...?)

If the saveset is saved but the index is removed, then you may be experiencing 
some client identity issue.

Have you tried running 
  nsrim -X (once)
  nsrck -L6 (3 times)
 
(that didn't work for me ehan I had a similar problem but the followig 
procedure produced some warnings about an old client name and worked for me 
fine with just one client:
 - remove both clients  (remove the index folders too)
-  recreate both clients using the existing clientID's but with a resolvable 
dummy  client name each (e.g. "dummy1" and "dummy2" -- you will need to 
create two fake entries  on the /etc/hosts *before* you attempt to create the 
dummy client definitions).
- remove the dummy definitions
- recreate the clients with the original names (i.e. use original 
client_name/clientID values)

jee



 Tuesday 27 September 2011 18:55:28 Michael Leone wrote:
> Here's a weird one .. I have 2 clients (both virtual cluster clients),
> both with browse and retention policies of 2 months, who have their
> indexes either completely deleted (i.e., the index sub-folder for that
> client is 0K),  or it only has the previous day's activity. These are both
> backups made with the SQL Module. Neither client nor job has changed in at
> least months, perhaps longer.
>
> Even weirder - this seems to happen on every weekday. The index backup (we
> do "savegrp -O") on Sat morning - which would have the index from the
> Friday backup - would be there. And that would be the only index backup
> that wasn't empty.
>
> >mminfo -avot -q
>
> "client=networker-server,name=index:client,savetime>09/01/2011" -r
> volume,client,ssid,name,level,savetime(22),totalsize(2)
>
>  volume        client     ssid       name                             lvl
>   date     time total
> 006792         networker-server 1667207181 index:client full 9/1/2011
> 10:00:45 AM 32 KB
> 006872         networker-server 1298192353 index:client full 9/2/2011
> 9:19:29 AM 32 KB
> 006872         networker-server 2825005238 index:client full 9/3/2011
> 9:16:38 AM 10 MB
>
> I wouldn't have noticed it, except that I needed to do a recover, and I
> couldn't because it said there had been no files backed up (which I knew
> to be false).
> (that snippet is for earlier in the month, but it's the same all month)
>
> "nsrls" shows the total size of the index to be zero
> "nsrck -L6" shows no errors, and a total size of zero
> "nsrck -L7" reads back in zero (unless I specify one of the Saturday
> backups, like 9/3/2011 above)
>
> Note that the groups that these 2 clients are in are set to "no index
> save", like all our groups. I have 130 clients, and am only seeing this
> problem on these 2. One client is a clone job, one is not.
> EMC seems to be confused, as well. :-)
>
> Thoughts, anyone? I am going to uncheck the "No index save" temporarily on
> these groups. Can anyone suggest something else to diagnose?
>
> Thanks

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