We could probably work that into a "Top Ten" list. Wanna go on Letterman
:^)

But we're getting a little bit off Curtis's original question, which was
about trouble spots and not FAQs.

This one caught me numerous times when I was starting out with NetWorker
(I'm a slow learner): In at least versions up to 7.2.x, if you're
running an nsrjb command and decide to cancel out of it with Ctrl-C,
another copy of the task continues running. If the reason you wanted to
kill out was because the command was hung, the second task remains hung
and prevents any further nsrjbs from working. "But I KILLED it!! I used
-9!! Why is it still running?!?"

And while we're on trouble spots/misunderstandings, how about Licensing?
Among the features I love to hate is the fact that you can't determine
which client is using which NM Oracle license, or which client will fail
if you exceed your license count (not necessarily the newly-added
client).

Plus there's the extremely painful "I see a license key on another
server ergo I will shut down both servers immediately" feature.
Transferring a license from one server to another? You'd better delete
the old before adding the new; doing it in the reverse sequence may cost
you your job.

Conrad Macina
Pfizer, Inc.




-----Original Message-----
From: Stan Horwitz [mailto:stan AT temple DOT edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 8:18 AM
To: Macina, Conrad
Cc: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Top 20 (or so) misunderstood things about NW


On Apr 1, 2008, at 5:57 AM, Conrad Macina wrote:
> "Read-onlyness," the difference between making a tape read-only in  
> NetWorker
> vs. setting the physical write protect tab, and the fact that making  
> a tape
> read-only in NetWorker will not prevent it from being relabeled.
>
> Not really a misunderstood thing, but the top four questions most  
> frequently
> asked by clients:
>
> 1. "How long is my next backup going to take?"

Which reminds me of another item for this list ...

Are my backups working?

Answer: test your backups and let me know.

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