Not that I'm at a point that I want to fix cloning, or even at the same
version anymore (I think it was 7.3.1), but suffice it to say we had
issues cloning about 60TB.  It would take a week to do so and the
failures are usually on only one or two clonesets.  I had it scripted to
split into ~15 2-3TB data sets and someplace one would die.  So I had to
look at the copies, check that they were all complete and not errored
out, delete the errored ones so the count was accurate (even errored
clones increment the copies field), recreate the lists of SSIDs, rinse
and repeat...

That's the cloning mess I was referring to

cheers
Jerry

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Subject: [Networker] Cloning from VTL to Tape


Landwehr, Jerome wrote:
> Well, generally there's two ways to do cloning. The first is as a save

> group, you flip a flag to clone at group completion. The only other  
> option
> IMO is by listing the savesets into a file and using nsrclone
commands.
> 
> The issue I've had with cloning is it inevitably fails at some point,

> leaving you to cleanup the mess and try again!
> 
> HTH
> Jerry
> 
> On Oct 9, 2008, at 12:53 PM, "JesseGill" <networker-forum < at >
BACKUPCENTRAL.COM 
> 
> 


Jerry, if your clones inevitably fail then there's something else broken
in your system.  We're running 7.3.3 in a Windows-only environment, and
I've got eight clone jobs running from four VTL's to a single tape
library every day.   We might have something weird happen to a single
clone job once every six months.  We've had SAN connectivity issues from
time to time that would preclude a clone job from running, but once the
connectivity is working correctly, the clones just flat work.  Can you
elaborate on the issues you're encountering and your environment?

-brerrabbit

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