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Re: [Networker] Backing up servers with DFS

2010-02-01 10:25:21
Subject: Re: [Networker] Backing up servers with DFS
From: John Brekelbaum <jbrekelbaum AT GMAIL DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 09:22:41 -0600
No, even explicitly specifying a  volume and it still hangs.  I thought it
might be a network issue too, but I did a port scan and 7937 & 7938 are
accepting connections and I see a bunch of other higher ports established
from the NSR too...so that looks normal.  Also the VSS save sets work OK, so
I assume communication between client and server is OK.  Maybe a wrong
assumption?

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:05 AM, STANLEY R. HORWITZ <stan AT temple DOT edu> 
wrote:

>
> On 02 1, 2010, at 10:00 AM, John Brekelbaum wrote:
>
> > It just hangs...  The VSS system sets run OK, then it get's to the actual
> volumes, C, D, & E and they never kick off - they just sit their waiting to
> run...
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:45 AM, STANLEY R. HORWITZ <stan AT temple DOT edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 02 1, 2010, at 9:34 AM, John Brekelbaum wrote:
> >
> > > I have 7.5.1 on Windows 2003...
> > > Is there any special save commands that have to be used - I have either
> used "all" or "e:\" etc...
> > >
> > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:31 AM, STANLEY R. HORWITZ <stan AT temple DOT 
> > > edu>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 02 1, 2010, at 9:00 AM, John Brekelbaum wrote:
> > >
> > > > Any tricks to backing up a windows 2008 server (not R2) with volumes
> that
> > > > participate in DFS.  Save set all will get all the VSS system
> savesets but
> > > > it just hangs when trying to backup the drive letters.  Nothing
> helpful in
> > > > daemon.raw.  Also tried various credentials so does not look to be a
> > > > permissions issue.  Anyone else had problems backing up DFS servers?
>  Thanks
> > > > for any advice...
> > >
> > > Which NetWorker version are you using? I know that with NetWorker
> 7.4.4, DFS backups work, but you only get the ability to recover the entire
> DFS volume, not individual items within that volume.
> >
> > As I recall, you need to specify the DFS volume explicitly in the
> client's saveset list, but I didn't need to include any special save
> commands. Now that I think about it, I had a lot of trouble with this
> initially, to the point where we had a case open with EMC on this issue for
> several months before it was resolved. We did get it to work, but it was
> entirely trial and error on the client side, with help from EMC. What
> problem exactly are you having?
>
> The problem I had was entirely different. What happened in my case was that
> the backup would either crash immediately or at some point before it should
> have ended normally, but it never hung. In my experience, hung backups can
> often occur on Windows servers due to a firewall issue, so if you haven't
> looked into that yet, I suggest you do so. Can you do a regular backup
> (i.e., just back up C:\ and the VSS stuff) on that client?

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