Howdy,
Recently we've been experiencing backup problems for most of our Novell
systems. The Novell OS ranges from v5.1 to 6.0 (not sure on the minor
versions because I'm not the Novell admin and hardly touch them).
They are all running fairly recent Networker client software (the clients
that came with Networker 6.1 for the Novell 5 servers and the clients that
came with Networker 6.1.3 for the Novell 6 servers). Our Networker server
is v6.1.3, HP-UX 11i, and our tape storage is a SpectraLogic Gator 64000
with AIT-3 drives and AIT-2 media.
Until recently the Novell servers have been backing up without much problem,
but lately most are failing. The servers themselves have not been rebooted
in a while. We've tried to stop and start the Networker NLMs and there was
no difference.
My question is, in general, for those who backup Novell using Networker,
what kind of stability do you see in the backup process? Do you have to
reboot your Novell servers sometimes to massage Networker to work, does
simply reloading the NLMs work, or di you even have problems in general?
Here is the unsuccessful saveset message we got yesturday. We've been
getting these the past couple of weeks. Nothing has changed on the Novell
servers (such as admin passwords, access rights, etc), and no changes have
been done on the Networker server either. As I said, these clients just
worked, and then one by one they started giving errors like the following.
Rebooting our servers is an option, but we don't want to have to reboot them
every time we have these problems show up.
Nov 18 20:48:33 apollo syslog: --- Unsuccessful Save Sets ---
Nov 18 20:48:33 apollo syslog: * slc-corp-s1:VOL2: 1 retry attempted
Nov 18 20:48:33 apollo syslog: * slc-corp-s1:VOL2: Backup: Cannot restore
TSA connection to {slc-corp-s1.NetWare File System}SLC-CORP-S1 (0xfffdffc9)
Nov 18 20:48:33 apollo syslog: * slc-corp-s1:VOL2: (2000) ^IConnecting
directories failed
Nov 18 20:48:33 apollo syslog:
Nov 18 20:48:33 apollo syslog: * slc-corp-s1:VOL1: 1 retry attempted
Nov 18 20:48:34 apollo syslog: * slc-corp-s1:VOL1: Backup: Cannot make TSA
connection to default NetWare server 0xfffdffc9
Nov 18 20:48:34 apollo syslog: * slc-corp-s1:SYS: has been inactive for 33
minutes since Tue Nov 18 20:15:18 2003.
Nov 18 20:48:34 apollo syslog: * slc-corp-s1:SYS: is being abandoned by
nsrexec.
Nov 18 20:48:34 apollo syslog:
Nov 18 20:48:34 apollo syslog: * slc-hr-s1:All 1 retry attempted
Nov 18 20:48:34 apollo syslog: * slc-hr-s1:All nsrexec: authtype rsh
Nov 18 20:48:34 apollo syslog: * slc-hr-s1:All Backup: Cannot make TSA
connection to default NetWare server (SMDR-5.0-16) The named SMDR is
unknown, does not exis
t, or is not loaded.
Nov 18 20:48:34 apollo syslog: Backup slc-hr-s1: failed.
Nov 18 20:48:34 apollo syslog:
Nov 18 20:48:34 apollo syslog: * slc-it-s1:All 1 retry attempted
Nov 18 20:48:34 apollo syslog: * slc-it-s1:All nsrexec: authtype rsh
Nov 18 20:48:34 apollo syslog: * slc-it-s1:All Backup: Cannot make TSA
connection to default NetWare server (SMDR-5.0-16) The named SMDR is
unknown, does not exis
t, or is not loaded.
Nov 18 20:48:35 apollo syslog: Backup slc-it-s1: failed.
Nov 18 20:48:35 apollo syslog:
Nov 18 20:48:35 apollo syslog: * slc-nw1:All 1 retry attempted
Nov 18 20:48:35 apollo syslog: * slc-nw1:All Connection refused
Nov 18 20:48:35 apollo syslog: * slc-nw2:All 1 retry attempted
Nov 18 20:48:35 apollo syslog: * slc-nw2:All Connection refused
Nov 18 20:48:35 apollo syslog: * slc-nw3:All 1 retry attempted
Nov 18 20:48:35 apollo syslog: * slc-nw3:All Connection refused
Nov 18 20:48:35 apollo syslog: --- Successful Save Sets ---
Nov 18 20:48:35 apollo syslog: * slc-corp-s1:{NDS} savegrp: suppressed 14
lines of output
Nov 18 20:48:36 apollo syslog: * slc-corp-s1:{NDS} (1) .NLS:License
ID=SN:403028057.NLS:Publisher=Novell+NLS:Product=NetWare 6
User+NLS:Version=600.OU=SLC.O=USANA
.[Root]^IUser has no access rights to the named object.
Nov 18 20:48:36 apollo syslog: * slc-corp-s1:{NDS} (1) .NLS:License
ID=SN:403030557.NLS:Publisher=Novell+NLS:Product=NetWare 6
User+NLS:Version=600.OU=SLC.O=USANA
.[Root]^IUser has no access rights to the named object.
Nov 18 20:48:35 apollo syslog:
Nov 18 20:48:36 apollo above message repeats 4 times
Nov 18 20:48:36 apollo syslog: * slc-corp-s1:{NDS} (1) .NLS:License
ID=SN:403033057.NLS:Publisher=Novell+NLS:Product=NetWare 6
User+NLS:Version=600.OU=SLC.O=USANA
.[Root]^IUser has no access rights to the named object.
Nov 18 20:48:36 apollo syslog: * slc-corp-s1:{NDS} (1) .NLS:License
ID=SN:301735144.NLS:Publisher=Novell+NLS:Product=NetWare 6
Server+NLS:Version=600.O=USANA.[Roo
t]^IUser has no access rights to the named object.
Nov 18 20:48:36 apollo syslog: * slc-corp-s1:{NDS} (1) .[Root]^I<<< BAD
MESSAGE >>>
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Craig Ruefenacht
UNIX Administrator
USANA Health Sciences
http://www.usana.com
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