You don't mention anything about the Backup Hardware being used. I would
venture a guess and say that the reason nothing happens when you start a
group is because the tape device is spooling the data before it starts
writing. Are the files you are attempting to backup on D in use? Is
Windows Firewall enabled on the client you are having issues with?
Thanks,
Dana
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Clark, Patti
> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 5:38 PM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Backup of large Windows 2003 file system hanging
>
> We are running Networker v7.3.3 on server and clients. I have a new
> client, Windows 2003 Server 64-bit, that is single purposed as a file
> server and currently holding backup files for our Exchange store
> produced by Netbackup. The disk space has been carved up into a
> relatively small C:\ @ 12 GB (6 GB free) and a large D:\ @ 1.5 TB.
The
> number of files is fairly small, less than 300GB of space is being
used,
> and the directory structure is shallow, 2-3 levels deep. I have been
> successfully backing up a similar setup on a 32-bit system that was
> getting short on space.
>
> The Networker full backups on the new server were successful on the
> system state (VSS) components and the C:\. The D:\ starts the backup
> process, gets about 50GB written and then simply stops. The
daemon.log
> says that the saveset is done saving to the pool and a write
completion
> notice is posted to the volume. After about a 10 minute wait, the
> saveset backup for D:\ is started again with pretty much the same
> results and the backup is completed with the D:\ saveset as a failure.
>
> The event logs on the Win box has nothing, nor does any other log of
> relevance. There are no network firewalls between the networker
server
> and client. Forward and reverse DNS on both boxes are consistent.
All
> necessary privileges have been granted.
>
> I am backing up the backups. Netbackup runs on a server that is not
in
> the backup rotation. Is this a problem?
>
> Also, when I start any type of Windows client backup manually using
the
> NMC interface, a full 10 minutes passes, consistently, before anything
> visible happens - tape movements, saveset starts, etc. The only thing
> that happens immediately is the announcement that group has started
with
> # clients. Is this normal?
>
> Patti Clark
> Sr. Unix System Administrator - RHCT, GSEC
> Office of Scientific and Technical Information
>
>
>
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