David,

Did they provide you a README or description of what the patches
addressed?  We were also given a cumulative fix for v7.4.4.  Here are
the notes that we received:

Cumulative hotfix NW 7.4.4.1 includes the following new fixes.
LGTsc22849  New device cannot be added with jbedit 
LGTsc23458  savegrp processes hang after inactivity timeout. 
LGTsc24106  volretent taking longest ssretent instead of clretent 
LGTsc25528  Enable improved nsrmmgd error processing for non-CDI devices

Included were new binaries for nsrmmd, nsrlcpd, nsrjobd and nsrmmdbd.

I wonder if the new binaries you received are related in any way to what
we were given...

Thanks.
Teresa


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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Browning, David
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 3:39 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] v7.4.2 to v7.4.4

EMC provided us with a hotfix today, 3 programs changed - nsrjobd,
nsrlcpd, and nsrd.  

We've been working on this for weeks, so I hope it improves our
situation. 

If nothing else, the size of the programs have changed dramatically. 

Nsrjobd - 144kb, dated 12/11/2008 Replaced with
Nsrjobd - 1107kb, dated 3/20/2009 

Nsrlcpd - 415kb, dated 12/11/2008 Replaced with
Nsrlcpd - 2041kb, dated 3/20/2009

Nsrd - 1114kb, datae 12/11/2008 Replaced with
Nsrd - 2439kb, dated 3/20/2009 

If it helps, I will let you know. 


David M. Browning Jr.
IT Project Coordinator Enterprise Backups and Help Desk

 
-----Original Message-----
From: Browning, David 
Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 8:58 AM
To: 'NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU'
Subject: RE: [Networker] v7.4.2 to v7.4.4

We are experiencing similar problems with jobs hanging in 7.4.4 (in
7.2.2 they ran without issue).    Legato seems clueless. 

Like you, I've done all I can with parameter changes, jobd size change,
etc. 

For now, we do a daily, or every other day, reboot.   We are fortunate
enough to have available time during the daytime hours to do a reboot.
I'd hate to see what would happen if we didn't have that luxury. 

Anybody using 7.5? 

David M. Browning Jr.
IT Project Coordinator Enterprise Backups and Help Desk

 

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of soupdragon
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 4:21 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] v7.4.2 to v7.4.4

We recently upgraded our heavily loaded Solaris 8 servers with 800 or so
clients from 7.2.2 to 7.4.3 - then 7.4.4 in order to fix some bugs.
Upgrade fairly straightforward - in fact 7.4.3 to 7.4.4 took a matter of
minutes - just had to ensure our /usr/kernel/lus.conf modifications were
reapplied.

Mixed feelings about new release - certainly prettier but seems to be
much less robust than 7.2.2 and needs constant babysitting. I believe
this is to do with the jobd functionality - we have applied all
recommended tcp parameter changes, increased client parallelism to max
for the server client resource and increased the size of the jobsd
database as recommended elsewhere.

Still savegroups hang at 99% complete yet succeed on rerun, this gets
worse over time until the Networker service is restarted - we find we
have to do this once a fortnight at least. As it is restarted we see a
number of daemon messages regarding save sessions being marked as
complete in jobdb - this seems to fix the issues for a while. But it
does mean we cannot leave Networker to run unattended anymore.

Other annoyances are:

nsrjb -L -R option which is supposed to allow silent relabelling of
recyclable tapes no longer works.

certain client initiated saves do not appear in the NMC sessions window
- yet nsrwatch shows them (may be to do with lack of group in save
command - need to check)

All indexes are re-saved on a rerun even if only 1 client failed

The new group restart interval (we set to 23:59) precludes rerunning a
group that happens to exceed it's 24 hr window - this was never a
problem on 7.2

nwrecover GUI no longer shows the target for symbolic links - used to,
and command line recover still does.

Good things:

Automatic inventory of tapes known to media database when deposited

Ability to sort columns in the GUI, and reporting of session data rates
- very useful

Operations on multiple volumes in the GUI almost obviates the need for
csutom scripts to label tapes etc.

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