To eliminate repeats, set the "Client retries" parameter to 0 under
"Save Group set", than you should deal with your RPC error problem. This
issue has been discussed many times on this list. 

In general you should backrev the Novell TCPIP stack to earlier version.

Hope it helps...

Chezy Gal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Legato NetWorker discussion
[mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Surinder Dhiman
> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 12:17 PM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: [Networker] Netware Backup Repeats
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am currently getting a problem backing up our Netware 6.5 SP5 server
> running the Networker client 7.2 Combi1 patch.
> 
> The backup of the volumes SYS, MAIL, ARCHIVE  get backed up more that
once.
> When the backup of the volume completes its starts all over again and
and
> this can happen from 2 times to 4 times.  On the odd occasion it only
> happens once and finishs properly.  The repeats fill up our 2 (~40GB)
DLT
> tapes. {Incrementals are OK}
> 
> Server side is Networker 7.2.1 Build 311 running on W2k SP4
> 
> In the daemon.log I get the error
> 
> 
> 05/18/06 09:08:35 nsrd: savegroup info: starting  Rerun (with 1
client(s))
> 05/18/06 09:10:04 nsrd: ikwnb:ARCHIVE: saving to pool 'ITSS' (ITSS_28)
> 05/18/06 09:12:20 nsrindexd: pid 2324 frag size 774910001,
invalidating
> connection
> 05/18/06 09:19:12 nsrd: ikwnb:ARCHIVE: done saving to pool 'ITSS'
(ITSS_28)
> 1467 MB
> 05/18/06 09:19:17 savegrp: ikwnb:ARCHIVE: will retry 2 more time(s)
> 05/18/06 09:19:19 nsrd: ikwnb:ARCHIVE: saving to pool 'ITSS' (ITSS_28)
> 05/18/06 09:27:45 nsrindexd: pid 3088 frag size 842608176,
invalidating
> connection
> 05/18/06 09:28:43 nsrd: ikwnb:ARCHIVE: done saving to pool 'ITSS'
(ITSS_28)
> 1467 MB
> 05/18/06 09:28:48 savegrp: ikwnb:ARCHIVE: will retry 1 more time(s)
> 05/18/06 09:28:50 nsrd: ikwnb:ARCHIVE: saving to pool 'ITSS' (ITSS_28)
> 05/18/06 09:38:11 nsrd: ikwnb:ARCHIVE: done saving to pool 'ITSS'
(ITSS_28)
> 1467 MB
> 05/18/06 09:38:19 nsrd: ikwmb.ad.itss.nerc.ac.uk:index:ikwnb saving to
pool
> 'ITSS' (ITSS_28)
> 05/18/06 09:39:02 nsrd: ikwmb.ad.itss.nerc.ac.uk:index:ikwnb done
saving to
> pool 'ITSS' (ITSS_28) 230 MB
> 05/18/06 09:39:08 nsrd: savegroup notice: Rerun completed, total 1
> client(s), 0 Hostname(s) Unresolved, 0 Failed, 1 Succeeded.
> * ikwnb:ARCHIVE: SAVE.NLM: RPC error: RPC send operation failed.  A
network
> connection could not be established with the host.
> * ikwnb:ARCHIVE: SAVE.NLM: RPC error: RPC send operation failed.  A
network
> connection could not be established with the host.
> * ikwnb:ARCHIVE: SAVE.NLM: shutdown failed
> * ikwnb:ARCHIVE: 1 retry attempted
> * ikwnb:ARCHIVE: SAVE.NLM: RPC error: RPC send operation failed.  A
network
> connection could not be established with the host.
> * ikwnb:ARCHIVE: SAVE.NLM: RPC error: RPC send operation failed.  A
network
> connection could not be established with the host.
> * ikwnb:ARCHIVE: SAVE.NLM: shutdown failed
> 05/18/06 09:39:53 nsrd: write completion notice: Writing to volume
ITSS_28
> complete
> 
> 
> Would the nwlib6g.exe (Novell patch) fix this RPC error perhaps? It is
Beta
> at the moment so I am a bit reluctant to put it on.
> 
> Many thanks for any help
> 
> Regards
> 
> Surinder.
> 
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