Networker

Re: [Networker] 7.4.5 nsrck hangs

2009-11-05 13:09:59
Subject: Re: [Networker] 7.4.5 nsrck hangs
From: James Pratt <jpratt AT NORWICH DOT EDU>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 13:06:29 -0500
I had this similar/same problem on 7.5 - Johannes had it right when I asked the 
same question here a while back, and EMC confirmed it was indeed the "fix" - 

Btw - thanks Johannes!

jamie


>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] 
>> On
>> Behalf Of Jóhannes Karl Karlsson
>> Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 9:35 PM
>> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
>> Subject: Re: [Networker] windows 32-bit - nw 7.5.1. - random 2gb ssid 
>> chunking
>> 
>> We had this problem in our site when we were running NetWorker 7.4.4 32Bit on
>> Windows.
>> 
>> An EMC engineer we had working for us on site fixed it by putting this 
>> environment
>> variable on the NW server and all the storage nodes.
>> 
>> NSR_FAIL_ON_AUTH_ERROR   =   YES
>> 
>> Strangely, it's not documented on powerlink. But it worked for us.
>> 
>> Johannes
>>



>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] 
>> On
>> Behalf Of Mark Davis
>> Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 12:02 PM
>> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
>> Subject: Re: [Networker] 7.4.5 nsrck hangs
>> 
>> I am also seeing this "Continuation Saveset" issue on clients that are
>> running 7.4 SP5 downloaded last week from EMC's site. I've seen it
>> happen on a Windows Sever 2008 box, as well as an OS-X box.
>> 
>>  From my daemon.log for the OS-X box:
>> 
>> 19:36:32 hostname.uwo.ca:<1>/Data saving to pool '3LTOH1' (300262) 1720 MB
>> 19:39:34 hostname.uwo.ca:<2>/Data saving to pool '3LTOH1' (300262) 1755 MB
>> 19:42:37 hostname.uwo.ca:<3>/Data saving to pool '3LTOH1' (300262) 1792 MB
>> 19:45:43 hostname.uwo.ca:<4>/Data saving to pool '3LTOH1' (300262) 1907 MB
>> 19:48:45 hostname.uwo.ca:<5>/Data saving to pool '3LTOH1' (300262) 1892 MB
>> 19:51:48 hostname.uwo.ca:<6>/Data saving to pool '3LTOH1' (300262) 1973 MB
>> 19:54:50 hostname.uwo.ca:<7>/Data continuing save
>> 19:54:50 hostname.uwo.ca:<8>/Data saving to pool '3LTOH1' (300262) 64 MB
>> 19:57:52 hostname.uwo.ca:<8>/Data continuing save
>> 19:57:52 hostname.uwo.ca:<9>/Data saving to pool '3LTOH1' (300262) 128 MB
>> 20:01:55 hostname.uwo.ca:<10>/Data saving to pool '3LTOH1' (300262) 896 MB
>> 20:05:27 hostname.uwo.ca:<11>/Data saving to pool '3LTOH1' (300262) 1204 MB
>> 20:09:10 hostname.uwo.ca:<12>/Data saving to pool '3LTOH1' (300262) 1677 MB
>> 20:12:43 hostname.uwo.ca:<13>/Data continuing save
>> 20:12:43 hostname.uwo.ca:<14>/Data saving to pool '3LTOH1' (300262) 64 MB;
>> 20:17:15 hostname.uwo.ca:<15>/Data saving to pool '3LTOH1' (300262) 1110 MB
>> 20:21:18 hostname.uwo.ca:<16>/Data saving to pool '3LTOH1' (300262) 1964 MB
>> 20:24:51 hostname.uwo.ca:<18>/Data saving to pool '3LTOH1' (300262) 384 MB;
>> 
>> 
>> Any thoughts in the group as to why this is happening?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Mark
>> --
>> Mark Davis
>> University of Western Ontario - ITS
>> email: davism AT uwo DOT ca
>> 
>> Roberta Gold wrote:
>> > I am using the official release of 7.4.5 downloaded from their website ...
>> >
>> >
>> > At 12:58 PM -0500 9/8/09, Tim Mooney wrote:
>> >>> A newly discovered issue (breaking up savesets again):
>> >>>
>> >>>>> 38706 09/04/09 15:04:22  nsrd server1:/nsr_old continuing save
>> >>>>> 38718 09/04/09 15:04:22  nsrd server1:<1>/nsr_old saving to pool
>> >>>>> 'File DD580 STG' (st.1)
>> >>
>> >> Continuation savesets?  That's a blast from the past.
>> >>
>> >> Are you running the released version of 7.4.5 or have you applied any
>> >> additional patches?  I ask because when EMC gives out debug binaries,
>> >> sometimes those are configured with a ss cutoff size that causes
>> >> continuation savesets to be used.
>> >>
>> >> Tim
>> >> --
>> >> Tim Mooney
>> >> Tim.Mooney AT ndsu DOT edu
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>> >> (Voice)
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