Re: [Networker] Hung savesets with 7.3

This has been an ongoing in problem in all versions of Networker.
One misbehaved client, will hang or keep a group running forever.   I 
realize it is usually something on the client
that causes this.   Still, if one is backing up 1000 boxes (say 4000 
savesets), there is a good probability that a client or saveset may have
a problem.  The software should have some mechanism to help with that.

This, I feel, is one of the single biggest problems with Networker.  

Are you saying in 7.3 when any backup runs there
is no nsrexec process assoiciated with it?  Indeed, then, it seems they
have not addressed this critical problem and, further, have taken away a 
mechanism to deal with it.  Very helpful.

Robert Maiello
Pioneer Data Systems

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 08:06:19 +1100, Tim Nicholson <tim AT MAIL.USYD.EDU DOT AU> 
wrote:

>We have this problem too, since upgrading to 7.3 (mainly with windows
>clients).
>The biggest gripe is that I have found no way of killing the
>individual client saves from the server.
>
>Under earlier versions, (on a Unix server), each saveset is
>controlled by
>a child process (nsrexec) of the savegrp process.  You could kill these
>processes and have the group continue on.  This is particularly
>important
>if the backup server is part of the group, as it will still backup the
>servers index and bootstrap.  With 7.3, I can only abort the group
>which stops any remaining savesets from starting.
>
>Also, I have found that the new scheduler does not obey the
>parallelism rules.  The number of index saves can exceed the
>group parallelism (by a very large number!!).
>
>
>On 28/03/2006, at 6:05 PM, Oscar Olsson wrote:
>
>> We have noticed an increased degree of savesets that hang a group,
>> and never start, thus they will never time out either, and the
>> group will be flagged as running forever until its manually aborted.
>>
>> Is this a known problem? If yes, does anyone have a LGTpa number
>> for this problem?
>>
>> //Oscar
>>
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