Hi Robert,

Let me first open up this email by saying a great
THANK  YOU to all of you people replying to my
problem.

This kind of interest and support is really
overwhelming.

I have tried cloning only a few savesets and that goes
on nicely. No problems.

As I said in an email before, nsrclone -v -S -f file
where file contains lines with savesets as an output
from mminfo exhibits exactly the same behaviour.

The operation sometimes goes quite far, to the point
that the robot actually needs to change the tape to
another source tape. The fact that nsrclone hangs so
far seems to be irrelevant to any tape changes (as far
as I can tell).

Thanks and regards,
Dimitris


--- Robert Maiello <robert.maiello AT PFIZER DOT COM> wrote:
> It certainly sounds like nsrclone is hanging.   The
> command line limit
> suggestion is good.   Try nsrclone -v -f myfile 
> where myfile contains
> each saveset one on a line.
> 
> The only other reason I think of nsrclone hanging is
> if a tape it needs
> is in use.  You only have 2 drives so that can't be
> the case and it usually
> fails/exits when this happens..come to think of it.
> 
> Anything in the daemon.log?
> 
> 
> Robert Maiello
> Pioneer Data Systems
> 
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:23:24 -0400, John Stoffel
> <John.Stoffel AT TAEC.TOSHIBA DOT COM> wrote:
> 
> >Legato NetWorker discussion
> <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote on
> >04/19/2005 02:58:46 AM:
> >
> >
> >> I have a very interesting cloning problem in our
> site here and I wonder
> >if
> >> anyone
> >> has seen something similar.
> >>
> >> With networker 7.1.2 on Solaris 9 (Sun 280R), 2
> IBM LTO/2 tape drives on
> >an
> >> IBM 3584 library through 2GBps SAN fabric I try
> to manually clone a
> >number
> >> of savesets that constitute a full backup.
> >>
> >> The content is about 181 savesets totalling to ~
> 640GB.
> >>
> >> The command is something like:
> >>
> >> nsrclone -S `mminfo -r ssid -q
> '!incomplete,savetime>=last
> >> sunday,savetime<last monday'`
> >
> >I wonder if this is the problem, that the output of
> your mminfo command is
> >exceeding the limits of your shell to pass in
> arguements?  Have you tried
> >re-working the script to generate a list of ssids
> and to feed them one at
> >a time to nsrclone instead?  Or in bunches of 10-20
> instead of however
> >many you get now with the mminfo output?
> >
> >John
> >
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