Hello,
You did not mention how the new server's devices were reconfigured, if 
still not working  try deleting all Devices ( if you have time ) and 
reengineer them.
Can you use MT or other cmd to verify device functionality ?
THT



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As another datapoint, I can back up the NSR server to its own 
storage.  So it's not _totally_ broken.

ian

On 05 Feb 08, at 1520, Ian G Batten wrote:

> I wanted to remove our our Networker server, an E450 running 
> Solaris 8 and Networker 7.1.1.  The only storage is a couple of 
> local disk devices (bootstraps and index backups go there, then are 
> cloned to remote tape, as a workaround for the networker server not 
> having tape devices).
>
> The replacement is a V240 running Solaris 10 and Networker 7.3.3 
> (7.4 seems a bit new).
>
> Tape storage is on a distinct node, Solaris 10 + 7.1.1, driving an 
> ADIC 100.  I intend to upgrade that to 7.3.3 or 7.4 when the main 
> networker node is finished.
>
> I installed the relevant packages on the V240, moved /var/nsr over, 
> set up an entry for the networker server, applied all the new 
> licenses against the new host id, made sure that the server 
> references itself as the license server.
>
> And nothing works.
>
> My test client is running Solaris 10 and 7.3.3, but I have a 
> mixture of 7.3.3, 7.1.1 and one 6.1.4 (Sparc 10, which won't run 7).
>
> There are no error messages.  I can start a group using nmc, and 
> all the client savesets go into `contacting client' state, and then 
> hang.  save is sometimes started on the remote client, but makes no 
> progress.  Nothing is logged client, server, nmc.  I can see the 
> storage server from the NMC, and nsrjb -s backup-srv works from the 
> storage server, so I'm confident the various machines are seeing 
> each other.  If I deliberately break the pool the test backup is 
> going into, so that the Default pool would be selected (which has 
> no media in it) then I get messages telling me to load a Default 
> piece of media.  But if the saveset matches a valid pool, there is 
> total silence.
>
> Fortunately I have the E450 on ice, so I can simply revert to that 
> at any time.  But if anyone has helpful hints, please let me have 
> them!
>
> ian
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