We have running 6.1.3 on 280 under Solaris 9 for 2 months.
The only problem we had was related to hotfix LGTpa50956. Everything is
ok since we applied the hotfix. Our tape library is directly attached
Spectra 2000 (30 slots, 2xAIT-2 drives).

Stan Horwitz wrote:
>
> After a month of running NetWorker 6.1.3, I am less than enthusiastic
> about this software. My understanding is that Legato uses Solaris as its
> development platform so one would expect the fewest problems by running
> NetWorker under Solaris, as opposed to other operating systems, or is that
> unrealistic? I have had nothing but problems since migrating our backup
> server from NetWorker 6.1.1 under Tru64 Unix to 4.0f to Solaris 9 with
> NetWorker 6.1.3.
>
> After installing a new set of hotfix binaries on Wednesday, the server ran
> fine through the night. Today, I see that a tape that was used only for
> one NDMP SnapImage client's backup is still marked as writing, even though
> that client's backup finished.
>
> The hotfix files that I applied on June 11 are from the LGTpa53663 hotfix.
> I am curious if anyone else on this list is trying this hotfix.  Legato's
> tech support engineer who's been working with me on this case (number
> 3055074) did tell me that Legato's developers are still verifying this
> hotfix (which involves updates to ansrd, nsrd, and nsrmmd), but I figured
> since our server seems to malfunction anyway every other day, I had
> nothing to lose by trying these new binaries.
>
> What was happening is that the NSR server software would slow to a
> crawl.The daemon.log would show tons of RPC errors and failures to cancel
> nsrmmd processes that look like:
>
> 06/12/03 16:02:36 nsrd: media info: restart of nsrmmd #10 on bootz cancelled
>
> As a result, it would be impossible to complete our nightly scheduled
> backups within my backup window. I suspect that if I do not restart the
> NSR software today, the same problem will occur again tonight. I might be
> wrong, but I do not want to take the chance. However, last night, I see
> no errors or cancelation failures in NSR's daemon.log, but I did get a
> couple of SCSI warnings from our Big Brother monitoring software that
> look like:
>
> Jun 13 02:22:09 bootz scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
> /pci@4,4000/ANTR,2u3wl@4 (glm26):
> Jun 13 02:22:09 bootz glm2: [ID 160360 kern.warning] WARNING:
> ID[SUNWpd.glm.cmd_timeout.6016]
> Jun 13 02:22:09 bootz scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
> /pci@4,4000/ANTR,2u3wl@4/st@1,0 (st85):
> Jun 13 02:25:22 bootz scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
> /pci@4,4000/ANTR,2u3wl@4/st@1,0 (st85):
>
> If anyone has any comments, please let me know. I have reported all of
> this to Legato earlier today.
>
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